Physics
Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?
After the first 20 minutes, the water temperature seemed to increase at a fairly constant rate of 0.0006 degrees Celsius ...
New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was ...
Viewers of Quantum Events Are Also Subject to Uncertainty
It gets better. What if B is also anchored to a quantum object that’s in a superposition of two locations? ...
How Does a Movie Projector Show the Color Black?
Courtesy of Rhett Allain But what about the colors from a video projector? It essentially does the same thing. However, ...
Why Can’t You Switch Seats in an Empty Airplane?
It’s the last flight of the day and the plane is pretty empty. So you’re thinking maaaybe you’ll just move ...
Why We Suck at Judging the Strength of Knots
Despite how frequently we deal with knots—in our shoelaces, in our corded earphones, in our holiday gift-wrapping—they might be giving us ...
