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A team of scientists demonstrated something back in 2019 that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth on average. The researchers presented their results back in March 2019 in an article in the magazine Physics Today. They explain that our methods of calculating which planet is “the closest” oversimplifies the matter. But that’s not all. “Further, Mercury is the closest neighbour, on average, to each of the other seven planets in the solar system,” they write. Wait”what? Our misconceptions about how close the planets are to one another comes from the wa...

From about 1100 to 1700 CE, there was a widely accepted method of weather prediction called astrometeorology. Posted: May 8, 2021 8:09 AM Posted By: Kevin Orpurt From about 1100 to 1700 CE, there was a widely accepted method of weather prediction called astrometeorology. As the name suggests, it was weather forecasting based on the positions of objects in the sky, such as planets and the Moon. The April 2021 issue of Physics Today has a wonderful article outlining the history of astrometeorology and how it was applied. In addition, there is actually quite a wealth of research and informatio...

Since scientists first demonstrated nuclear power 70 years ago, the second stage of nuclear power has remained just beyond our fingertips: nuclear fusion power. While promising, the ETA on the technology required to develop and build viable nuclear fusion has remained decades away. Until now. Probably. A company claims to have hit a critical milestone in the development of a new technology capable of generating power from nuclear fusion, according to a recent press release. Called TAE Technologies, the fusion energy developer claimed its reactors might generate energy at commercial scales by ...

NEW DELHI: As Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” What happened to Sir Isaac Newton in 1720 might have a lesson for tip-hungry Robinhood traders in India and elsewhere, who sometimes try to judge a stock based on its name, or shun an IPO because of bad publicity only to discover that it has ended up delivering 75 per cent returns in just five months of listing. Minneapolis-based mathematics professor Andrew Odlyzko dug out archives to find out how none other than the brilliant physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton lost much of his fortune in th...

The University of Rochester April 20 announced that a group of its researchers were honored with National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, with Ranga Dias among them. Dias was among five researchers at the university to receive the honor, NSF’s most prestigious recognition for early-career faculty members. The award “embodies NSF’s commitment to encourage faculty and academic institutions to value and support the integration of research and education” and recognizes individuals “who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to ...