Take a self-guided tour from quantum to cosmos!
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Early computers were room-sized mechanical brains complete with wheels, shafts, and cranks. Then the playful and ingenious Claude Shannon came…
It might be an icon of old-school invention, but the light bulb is a quantum device. A tour through its…
Just because a theory works, doesn’t mean we understand it, writes Dan Falk.
S.N. Bose was a Bengali mathematician who taught himself German in order to study physics. He then solved a problem…
Some of the most abundant stuff in the universe is also the most mysterious, but we may not be in…