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Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There's also the more recent concept of "explosive percolation," whereby connectivity emerges not in a…
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Delve into the physics of the Hula-Hoop
High-speed video of experiments on a robotic hula hooper, whose hourglass form holds the hoop…
Ten cool science stories we almost missed
For their study, Yudkin et al. compiled a dataset of nearly 370,000 AITA posts, along…
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The physics of ugly Christmas sweaters
In 2018, a team of French physicists developed a rudimentary mathematical model to describe the…
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Could microwaved grapes be used for quantum sensing?
The microwaved grape trick also shows their promise as alternative microwave resonators for quantum sensing…