deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Rice experts available to discuss gravitational waves
HOUSTON – Two Rice University physicists are available to discuss the highly anticipated announcement that may confirm the discovery of gravitational waves by two detectors in the United States. Matthew Baring, a professor of physics and…
Long-term picture offers little solace on climate change
[caption id="attachment_7595" align="alignnone" width="604"] Chrisangel Nieto, age 3, rode his tricycle in front of the Valero refinery in Houston. This refinery processes almost 7 million tons of carbon per year, most of which will end…
Small molecule slows down ticking of the biological…
A group of biologists, theoretical chemists and synthetic chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University, Japan, have come together to develop a small molecule that slows down the circadian clock rhythm…
Visualising atoms
[caption id="attachment_7617" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: MPE–M. Kretschmer[/caption] How atoms interact and behave is common high-school knowledge, but what we know is based on assumptions or snapshots. Electron microscopes have taken images of atoms so we…