Quanta Magazine: A new proof has debunked a conspiracy that mathematicians feared might haunt the number line. In doing so, it has given them another set of tools for understanding arithmetic’s fundamental building blocks, the prime numbers. In a paper posted…
Quanta Magazine: Fluids can be roughly divided into two categories: regular ones and weird ones. Regular ones, like water and alcohol, act more or less as expected when pumped through pipes or stirred with a spoon. Lurking among the weird ones…
Physics: Self-propelled particles can organize themselves into structures that could eventually be put to use for advanced technologies. Many of these particles move continuously, but now researchers have shown that particles that are induced to start and stop can produce a surprising square lattice pattern that forms and reforms…
Wired: The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as the JWST, finally launched on December 25 for its journey 930,000 miles from Earth. This is the next generation that will replace the famous Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has been capturing…
Materials Today: A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device with remarkable stability and longevity for converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels – ethylene and hydrogen. In a paper on this work in…
