Imagine you've encountered a natural phenomenon you want to understand better, but don't have the tools to do so. Perhaps you're curious why the fundamental constants have the values that they do, or ...

Archimedes was possibly the world's greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions, ...

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Quantum mechanics comes with something called the uncertainty principle. This states that there are pairs of properties that cannot be simultaneously known to arbitrary precision. This is not due to ...