How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
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On a remote island in the Indian Ocean, six closely watched bats took to the star-draped skies. As they flew across the seven-acre speck of land, devices implanted in their brains pinged data back to ...
Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids swirl. And for nearly 200 years, the ...