#Physicist

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer,” physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer Niels Bohr observed while

Author: Kim Wong-Shing / Source: did you know? In “weird science” news, scientists have finally figured out why grapes explode into flames in the microwave. Most folks have never had a reason to microwave a grape, because why would you. But if you did cut a grape into half and plop it into the

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News If particle physicists get their way, new accelerators could one day scrutinize the most tantalizing subatomic particle in physics — the Higgs boson. Six years after the particle’s discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, scientists are planning

Author: Davide Castelvecchi / Source: Scientific American CERN has unveiled its bold dream to build a new accelerator nearly four times as long as its 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider—currently the world’s largest—and up to six times more powerful. The European particle physics laboratory,

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News A proton’s mass is more just than the sum of its parts. And now scientists know just what accounts for the subatomic particle’s heft. Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’