Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

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In this video, we dive into gravitational potential energy and how to calculate it using numerical integrals in Python. Learn how to set up the equations, perform the integration, and visualize the ...

This video guides you through the process of calculating the acceleration of a block sliding down an inclined plane with friction. We break down the forces involved and show how to apply Newton’s laws ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

As someone who’s been playing golf for over 15 years—and as a former Division I golfer—I can honestly say that one of my biggest breakthroughs came when I finally learned my carry distances. For years ...

This infographic depicts a simplified diagram of the novel energy-harvesting technique using the TL liquid. Implementation of this strategy in practice could help in the conversion of waste heat ...

Graphs and data visualizations are all around us—charting our steps, our election results, our favorite sports teams’ stats, and trends across our world. But too often, people glance at a graph ...

Neo4j, the graph database from the US-Swedish company of the same name, is used by 76% of the Fortune 100, and its Australian customers include organisations in the healthcare, policing and banking ...

Physicists have used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The work is one of the relatively few instances of using AI ...

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Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this effect ...