physics
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New NASA Visualisation Shows What The Dreaded Polar Vortex Really Looks Like
It was cold in the Continental US this week. Colder than Alaska, Mars (technically), and even parts of Antarctica, which isn’t so surprising because it’s presently summer in Antarctica, but sounds wild nonetheless.
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A Guide To The Chemistry Of Cold Weather
You might have noticed that it’s pretty cold throughout much of the United States right now — frostbite-inducing, school-closing, scald-yourself-with-boiling-water-while-attempting-that-stupid-instant-snow-trick cold videos are all over the internet right now. And while we are experiencing a scorcher of a summer down here, up in the northen hemisphere things are getting astronomically worse – so lets look…
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Scientists Try To Recreate Freakishly Tall ‘Rogue’ Waves In The Lab
On New Year’s Day, 1995, an instrument off the coast of Norway measured a rogue wave 25.6m high. Now, scientists are recreating these waves — albeit in miniature — in the lab.
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Why Did NASA, Lockheed Martin And Others Spend Millions On This Quantum Computer?
Quantum computers are probably the most misunderstood of nascent technologies, which makes sense, because their very basics rely on the hardest-to-grasp concepts of physics. That’s led to people making some ridiculous claims, such as that they give you “god-like powers” and that they’re an “imminent threat”.