Physicists have used light to make the imaginary measurable Borkin Vadim/Shutterstock It should be impossible to measure an imaginary number…
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A total solar eclipse from August 2017 seen above Jefferson City, Missouri (NASA/Rami Daud) The following is an extract from…
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Read More »The equations that describe physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system — temperature or chemical potential, for…
Read More »Simulations show microscopic plastic balls within a cell membrane MarÃn-Aguilar, S., Camerin, F., van der Ham, S. et al. 2023…
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