9 Best Articles in 2021
James Clear
The Physics of Productivity: Newton’s Laws of Getting Stuff Done
James Clear
6 min read · 355 saves · From 2017 · Read this article to learn how to be more productive. Discover how Newton's Laws of Motion can boost your productivity.
Quanta Magazine
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math
Quanta Magazine
6 min read · 334 saves · 2020-03-04 · Kevin Hartnett · Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics.
Quanta Magazine
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
Quanta Magazine
~12 min read · 266 saves · 2020-04-07 · Natalie Wolchover · The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.
Cosmos Magazine
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude
Cosmos Magazine
3 min read · 246 saves · From 2017 · A super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties.
Scientific American
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air
Scientific American
~13 min read · 234 saves · 2020-02-04 · Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift?
Brain Pickings
When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang
Brain Pickings
1 min read · 206 saves · 2020-05-25 · Maria Popova · A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.
Scientific American
This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
Scientific American
~11 min read · 197 saves · 2020-08-17 · A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality
Quanta Magazine
What Is a Particle?
Quanta Magazine
10 min read · 174 saves · 2020-11-12 · Natalie Wolchover · It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more…
Quanta Magazine
The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End
Quanta Magazine
20+ min read · 172 saves · 2020-10-29 · George Musser · In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information — an apparent violation of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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The best science books to read in 2021
New Scientist
67 saves · 2020-12-31 · From Bill Gates's How to Avoid a Climate Disaster to Chiara Marletto's revolutionary recasting of physics, The Science of Can and Can't, 2021 is a blockbuster year for popular science books
Nature
Will increasing traffic to the Moon contaminate its precious ice?
Nature
6 min read · 38 saves · Jan 5th · Alexandra Witze · Scientists seek guidance on exploring frozen caches at the lunar poles responsibly.
Scientific American
New Views of Quantum Jumps Challenge Core Tenets of Physics
Scientific American
5 min read · 31 saves · 2020-12-29 · One of the most basic processes in all of nature—a subatomic particle’s transition between discrete energy states—is surprisingly complex and sometimes predictable, recent work shows
Quanta Magazine
A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos
Quanta Magazine
~12 min read · 22 saves · Jan 12th · Claudia Dreifus · Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his solution to the dark matter problem, and…
physicsworld.com
Why free will is beyond physics
physicsworld.com
6 min read · 22 saves · Jan 6th · Philip Ball argues that “free will” is not ruled out by physics – because it doesn’t stem from physics in the first place
The Economist
How understanding light has led to a hundred years of bright ideas
The Economist
6 min read · 21 saves · Jan 7th · The revolutionary theory of the nature of light which won Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel prize for physics went on to remake the world. Oliver Morton surveys a century of innovation
Live Science
The 10 biggest physics stories of 2020
Live Science
8 min read · 19 saves · Jan 1st · Let's admit it: It's been a pretty rough year for our neck of the solar system. But it's been a great year for scientists studying more distant reaches of the universe. From a colossal explosion to…
Science Friday
Finding New Particles On The Frontier of Physics
Science Friday
18 saves · Jan 8th · Theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek explores the existence of new particles, and why they matter.
Phys.org
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse
Phys.org
3 min read · 17 saves · 2020-12-28 · The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of a wide range of expertise available at the…
ScienceAlert
4 Mind-Bending Ways Quantum Physics Challenges Our Reality
ScienceAlert
2 min read · 14 saves · 2020-12-26 · Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through the puzzle pages for the Sudoku. You spend your morning working through this logic puzzle, only to realise by the last few squares there's no…
