Foams are everywhere: soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise. For decades, scientists believed that foams behave like glass, their microscopic components trapped ...

It’s time to stop teaching the biggest lie about Hawking radiation

Have you ever heard that Hawking radiation works by "pair popping" of particles and antiparticles out of the quantum vacuum?

Let's debunk the biggest lie about black hole evaporation.
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Инструкция по установке камней друг на друга

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet…

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In 2025, we launched the Elements of Truth game on Kickstarter and were thrilled by the response.…

Google just dropped 145 pages documenting how researchers use Gemini to tackle scientific problems.
𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 & 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 (𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬)

A few things that stood out to me (in simple terms):

- In one case, the AI was used as an adversarial reviewer