The Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California, serves military space launch missions as well as launches for NASA and commercial entities like SpaceX.
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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,
Read moreThe physics of frilly Swiss cheese “flowers”
Cheese connoisseurs are no doubt familiar with a particular kind of semi-hard Swiss cheese called “Tête de Moine.” Rather than spreading or slicing the cheese,
Read moreCERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
There’s a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has been extremely difficult. But that’s
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Physicists Say We Were Completely Wrong About How Gravity Works
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,
Read moreBeyond qubits: Meet the qutrit (and ququart)
The world of computers is dominated by binary. Silicon transistors are either conducting or they’re not, and so we’ve developed a whole world of math
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