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The Physics of Wile E. Coyote’s 10 Billion-Volt ElectromagnetThe famous cartoon schemer has an ingenious plan to lure Bugs Bunny out of his hole—and it involves a giant magnet and an iron carrot.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Rhett Allain Powered by WPeMatico
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Can Your Gravitational Pull Affect Your Game of Pool?It’s hard enough to predict the outcome of ball collisions in a game of billiards. Do you also have to factor in a player’s effect on the cue ball?https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Rhett Allain Powered by WPeMatico
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A Mathematician Answers a 150-Year-Old Chess ProblemThe n-queens problem is about finding how many different ways queens can be placed on a chessboard so that none attack each other.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Leila Sloman Powered by WPeMatico
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A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through Higher DimensionsThe concept of a dimension seems simple enough, but mathematicians struggled for centuries to precisely define and understand it.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124David S. Richeson Powered by WPeMatico
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How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New DimensionsResearchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model the complex connections within their data.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Stephen Ornes Powered by WPeMatico
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Animals Can Count. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Jordana Cepelewicz Powered by WPeMatico
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Fractons, the Weirdest Matter, Could Yield Quantum CluesTheorists are in a frenzy over these bizarre, but potentially useful, hypothetical particles that can only move in combination with one another.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Thomas Lewton Powered by WPeMatico
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What Causes Gamma-Ray Bursts? Their ‘Afterglows’ Hold CluesThese high-energy explosions, brighter than billions and billions of suns, have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Jonathan O’Callaghan Powered by WPeMatico
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How to Prepare for the Robot Apocalypse (If You’re a Robot)In the Netflix show The Mitchells vs. the Machines, robots are planning to blast all of humanity into outer space. How much time and energy will that take?https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Rhett Allain Powered by WPeMatico
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Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase TransitionsAt critical moments, rotational invariance is a universal property across many physical systems.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Allison Whitten Powered by WPeMatico
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