The Physics of Wile E. Coyote’s 10 Billion-Volt Electromagnet
The famous cartoon schemer has an ingenious plan to lure Bugs Bunny out of his hole—and it involves a giant magnet and an iron carrot. ..
The famous cartoon schemer has an ingenious plan to lure Bugs Bunny out of his hole—and it involves a giant magnet and an iron carrot. ..
Through his encyclopedic study of the electron, an obscure figure named Stefano Laporta found a handle on the subatomic world’s fearsome complexity. ..
Even ordinary actions, like tossing a tennis ball, can be extraordinarily complex to calculate. The trick is knowing what to leave out. ..
Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints for how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time. ..
It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball? ..
Physicists have linked the “gravitational memory effect” to fundamental cosmic symmetries and a potential solution to the black hole information paradox. ..
Researchers have long wanted to capture how protein structures contort in response to light. But getting a clear image was impossible—until now. ..
Years of conflicting measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles that could explain dark matter and the universe’s ..
We use video analysis to compare an animated liftoff to an actual one, proving that truth is more boring than fiction. ..
Leaping into an airborne cargo plane might not be impossible, but the numbers have to work out just right. ..