This article contains affiliate links; if you click on such a link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission. Scientists Have Established a 300-Year-Old Law of Physics© Marc Mateos – Getty Images “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may receive commissions or other income from these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn by reading this story: … Read more
In a surprising study that could revolutionize fluid mechanics, researchers at Drexel University have shown that under certain conditions, a simple liquid can behave like a solid and fracture. Study, published in Physical Examination Lettersshows that viscous liquids can burst suddenly when stretched with sufficient force. This finding suggests that viscosity, or a liquid’s resistance … Read more
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may receive commissions or other income from these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn by reading this story: Today, scientists do not find “laws” but rather perfect theories, they always know that there is more to learn. A new study shows why the centuries-old “laws” need to be changed, as the 300-year-old … Read more
Light usually travels in straight paths, but what if it was twisted, spun, and behaved like a mini-tornado? Scientists have now made this possible by creating optical vortices—small swirling particles of light in a microscopic system. Until now, generating such complex light systems required multiple setups or complex nanostructures, making it difficult to scale. A … Read more
Drexel University researchers have found that water can break down like solids under certain conditions. In a discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of fluid mechanics, it now appears that viscous fluids can suddenly break when stretched with sufficient force. Unlike solids, which will stretch and eventually break, water has never been believed to have … Read more
Rapid warming in the Arctic is changing sea ice in ways that directly affect bears, the region’s top predators. Ice now forms later, melts earlier, and provides a more unstable habitat than it did decades ago. For polar bears, this change disrupts almost every aspect of life, from hunting to movement to reproduction. … Read more
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Researchers have developed a new holographic data storage system that records and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining three important aspects of light – amplitude, phase and polarization. By using these three together, this method allows more data to be stored in one place, providing a potential solution to the world’s growing demand for … Read more
A scientific team exploring a cave in the far north of Saudi Arabia is expected to find more bones. Instead, they came face to face with the dead but still body of a cheetah, lying on the floor of the cave. This discovery was so unusual that one foreign expert explained that it was something … Read more
Localized A Martian dust storm revealed a process that scientists had largely ignored. Rather than rare earth events, small storms may push water into the atmosphere more often than expected. Mars is moving forward scars of a wet past. Ancient canals and water-altered minerals point to a time when liquid water was stable at the … Read more