Physics

Four NVIDIA H100 PCIe accelerator cards standing in a row on a white marble surface

27/10/2026
Data Centers, Electronics, Science

An H100 operation costs about 100 million Landauer limits

Horizontal bar chart of one-way signal time over 1,000 km: about 3,336 microseconds in vacuum, air and hollow-core fibre, 4,899 in standard single-mode fibre, and 4,508 to 4,905 in Cat 6A copper.

13/10/2026
Connectivity, Photonics, Science

Why data in optical fibre is 32% slower than light

A nearly full moon rising low over a mountain ridge, the horizon setting where the moon illusion is strongest

20/09/2026
Cosmology & Astrophysics, Science

Moon Illusion: The Horizon Moon Is Farther and Smaller

The view down from the Eiffel Tower over the Seine, the drop Franz Reichelt jumped into in his parachute suit in 1912

19/09/2026
Science

Franz Reichelt’s Eiffel Tower Jump: The Parachute Was Big Enough

A Soviet Tu-95 Bear bomber in flight, the aircraft type modified to drop the Tsar Bomba

18/09/2026
Science

Tsar Bomba Yield: The 100-Megaton Bomb Nobody Built

A Vela nuclear-detection satellite, whose bhangmeter recorded the disputed 1979 double flash

12/09/2026
Science

Vela Incident: Why a Perfect Detector Still Divides Scientists

Portrait of chemist Thomas Midgley Jr., who developed leaded gasoline for the Ethyl Corporation

10/09/2026
Science

Thomas Midgley’s Leaded Gasoline Choice Wasn’t About Chemistry

Abstract illustration of a dark red fluid shape streaming from the left and breaking into white and red shards, with faint physics equations in the background

28/02/2026
Quantum physics

Unveiling the Quantum Realm: The Invisible Architecture of Reality

Painted illustration of a collider tunnel with red warning lights, its walls overgrown by tangled dark red roots

23/01/2026
Particle Physics

The Long Silence: CERN’s Struggle to Avoid Obsolescence

08/01/2026
Quantum physics

Why Does Looking at the Universe Change It? The Quantum Measurement Problem

26/10/2025
Lifestyle

The Simulation Hypothesis: Are We Living in a Computer Program?

Fan of silicon pixel detector modules with gold flex cables mounted on a curved metal frame

29/04/2025
Particle Physics, Semiconductors

How Silicon Sensors Are Evolving to Survive the Next Generation of Particle Colliders

Hubble image of a distant galaxy whose light is bent into a near-complete ring around a foreground galaxy, an Einstein ring

02/01/2025
Cosmology & Astrophysics

Space-Time and Relativity: How to Imagine It

Apparatus from the first measurement of the Casimir force between two parallel metal plates: a metal disc on a spring-arm mount, now in a museum collection

24/12/2024
Quantum physics, Science

Quantum Vacuum: the Most Dynamic Essence of the Universe

A ring shaped nebula of glowing gas with a blue green centre and an orange red shell, surrounded by stars

24/12/2024
Cosmology & Astrophysics

The Mystery of Round Planets: Discover the Secret Force