Published on: 2025-06-05 05:00:00
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her uncle got her a computer. That was a rare commodity in China 25 years ago, and the gift did not go unused. At first, Yu mainly played computer games, but in middle school she won an award for web design. It was the first of many computer-related honors. Yu went on to major in computer science at Zhej
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Egg drop competitions are a staple of high school and college physics classes. The goal is for students to build a device using bubble wrap, straws, or various other materials designed to hold an egg and keep it intact after being dropped from a substantial height—say, 10 meters (nearly 33 feet). There's even a "naked egg" version in which a raw egg is dropped into a container below. The competition is intended to teach students about structural mechanics and impact physics, and it is not an eas
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What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible. In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers from the Department of Physics in the College of Science and the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons in graphene using pulses of light that last less than a trilli
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Egg drop competitions are a staple of high school and college physics classes. The goal is for students to build a device using bubble wrap, straws, or various other materials designed to hold an egg and keep it intact after being dropped from a substantial height—say, 10 meters (nearly 33 feet). There's even a "naked egg" version in which a raw egg is dropped into a container below. The competition is intended to teach students about structural mechanics and impact physics, and it is not an eas
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What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible. In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers from the Department of Physics in the College of Science and the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons in graphene using pulses of light that last less than a trilli
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Egg drop competitions are a staple of high school and college physics classes. The goal is for students to build a device using bubble wrap, straws, or various other materials designed to hold an egg and keep it intact after being dropped from a substantial height—say, ten meters (nearly 33 feet). There's even a "naked egg" version in which a raw egg is dropped into a container below. The competition is intended to teach students about structural mechanics and impact physics, and it is not an ea
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A theoretical proposal published in the journal Reports on Progress in Physics is making some bold claims about our previous understanding of quantum physics. Mainly, that we were wrong. The proposed theory grapples with the fact that quantum mechanics (basically modern physics) and general relativity (Einstein's theory of gravity) both describe the universe perfectly, but are mathematically incompatible with each other. To make them work, the proposal suggests scrapping almost everything we t
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Most robots rely on complex control systems, AI-powered or otherwise, that govern their movement. These centralized electronic brains need time to react to changes in their environment and produce movements that are often awkwardly, well, robotic. It doesn’t have to be that way. A team of Dutch scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam built a new kind of robot that can run, go over obstacles, and even swim, all driven only by the flow of air. And it
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TL;DR: To make Anukari’s performance reliable across all Apple silicon macOS devices, I need to talk to someone on the Apple Metal team. It would be great if someone can connect me with the right person inside Apple, or direct them to my feedback request FB17475838 as well as this devlog entry. This is going to be a VERY LONG HIGHLY TECHNICAL post, so either buckle your seatbelt or leave while you still can. Background The Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer simulates a large spring-mass model in
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TL;DR: To make Anukari’s performance reliable across all Apple silicon macOS devices, I need to talk to someone on the Apple Metal team. It would be great if someone can connect me with the right person inside Apple, or direct them to my feedback request FB17475838 as well as this devlog entry. This is going to be a VERY LONG HIGHLY TECHNICAL post, so either buckle your seatbelt or leave while you still can. Background The Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer simulates a large spring-mass model in
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Anukari is now in Beta. For the adventurous only: available to purchase for 50% off. Anukari is a software synthesizer and effects processor based on a fully interactive 3D physics simulation. Drag and drop physics components like masses and springs to design your own 3D instrument or effect. See and hear what you've built in real time. Radically New MIDI Instrument Use Anukari's 3D physics playground to create instruments you've only been able to imagine until now. Create a 3D instrument made
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Anukari is now in Beta. For the adventurous only: available to purchase for 50% off. Anukari is a software synthesizer and effects processor based on a fully interactive 3D physics simulation. Drag and drop physics components like masses and springs to design your own 3D instrument or effect. See and hear what you've built in real time. Radically New MIDI Instrument Use Anukari's 3D physics playground to create instruments you've only been able to imagine until now. Create a 3D instrument made
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Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months After several years of intense work, CERN and international partners have completed a study to assess the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC). Reflecting the expertise of over a thousand physicists and engineers across the globe, the report presents an overview of the different
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Rescale, a digital engineering platform that helps companies run complex simulations and calculations in the cloud, announced today that it has raised $115 million in Series D funding to accelerate the development of AI-powered engineering tools that can dramatically speed up product design and testing. The funding round, which brings Rescale’s total capital raised to
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In any sport, having the best gear can make all the difference. Swimmers want a suit with the minimum possible drag. Specialized running shoes trim off seconds in track and field events. Super grippy gloves in football created a whole genre of circus catches. Well, in baseball we have the bat. This season, the New York Yankees have begun to use a new design called the torpedo bat because it supposedly resembles a torpedo (though I doubt it works underwater). I’d say it looks more like an elonga
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Quantum Drama, by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron, Oxford University Press When I was an undergraduate physics student in the mid-1980s, I fell in love with the philosophy of quantum mechanics. I devoured biographies of the greats of early-20th-century atomic physics – physicists like Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli, Dirac, Fermi and Born. To me, as I was struggling with the formalism of quantum mechanics, there seemed to be something so exciting, magical even, about that era, particularly
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Havok announced that it will reduce its licensing fee for game studios who have game budgets under $20 million. The price cut reflects the tough times in the game industry. Now, Havok, which is owned by Microsoft, said that its licensing fees per game title will be $50,000, for the companies that are making a game with a budget under $20 million. This means that the company’s technologies, including Havok Physics and Havok Navigation, will be available to a broader range of studios. Havok tech
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Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe 4 days ago Share Save Joseph Howlett Share Save BBC/ Getty Images/ Beatrice Britton (Credit: BBC/ Getty Images/ Beatrice Britton) When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties. You might think physicists only ask the big questions. We mostly hear about the physics of the cosmic and the miniscule, the sha
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Special Feature Quantum Milestones, 1964: John Stewart Bell Quietly Rings in New Era of Quantum Theory In 1964, Bell showed that quantum physics predicts correlations that violate certain inequalities. The work implied that quantum mechanics is not compatible with locality, even if there were “hidden variables” not accounted for in quantum theory. CERN John Bell lectures on his theorem in 1982. CERN John Bell lectures on his theorem in 1982. × For the International Year of Quantum Science a
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“I just can’t stop doing it,” he says, with a chuckle and a tiny trace of southern Indiana twang. “I invent all the time. It doesn’t matter what it is. I’m always doing experiments.” Schroder grew up on a farm but always knew his future wasn’t in agriculture. With his heart set on studying physics, he applied only to MIT—ignorant, he says, of just how academically rigorous it would be. Once enrolled, he watched as his “super genius” classmates appeared to sail through their classes, while he wo
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The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) just launched an AI-powered forecasting model, which the center says outperforms state-of-the-art physics-based models by up to 20%. The model is dubbed the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS). According to an ECMWF release, the new model operates at faster speeds than physics-based models and takes approximately 1,000 times less energy to make a forecast. The ECMWF, now in its 50th year of operation, produced ENS, on
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