This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features two pioneers in their fields. Margaret Gardel is a biophysicist who…
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Tiny device: photograph of the microchip containing the Friedrich-Alexander University dielectric laser accelerator. A one cent euro coin is shown…
Justin Torres’ much-awaited follow-up to We The Animals, Blackouts is a meandering conversation between an unnamed young queer narrator and…
Militant extremist Islam is showing its carefully hidden Nazism. Just before the Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israelis and started…
I don’t remember exactly when I first heard it but it was in high school sometime in the early nineties.…
How it works: the noninvasive imaging technique combines acoustic radiation force and optical coherence tomography to produce 3D elastic wave…
Author Elissa Bassist is obsessed with the patriarchy. She once texted me, “BENNY needs to go pee, and I need…
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Michael Riordan argues that if the US had followed a more conservative strategy when building the Superconducting Super Collider, the…
Reaching out: Brad Gibson at Thoresby Primary School in Hull. (Courtesy: University of Hull) Congratulations to University of Hull physicist…
Common trends: researchers at the University of Tokyo have used data taken by telescopes such as the Arecibo observatory in…
Most of my really potent reading memories have less to do with exact books or passages, and more to do…
On March 11, 2022, Molly McGhee shared a resignation letter on Twitter. She was quitting her job as an assistant…
On a wire: the new quantum-computing protocol creates cubits from strings of trapped atoms. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia-Fux) Quantum bits (qubits) based…
Mona Simpson’s latest novel, Commitment, is a tour de force that takes place in the early 1970s and follows three…