Driving With A Dome Light On Might Annoy Dad But It’s Not Illegal
Remember when your parents made you feel like you opened a direct portal to hell in the ceiling of the family minivan when all you did was turn on the …
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School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings
The rubber band example does indeed have two nodes—they are at the ends of the rubber band where your fingers hold it. We only have half a wavelength in the …
An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor
A few years ago, the researchers decided to put a superconducting metal called strontium ruthenate in their crosshairs. Its structure is similar to that of a mysterious class of copper-based …
How to Cool an Object Without Using Any Energy
There are three ways that objects can have a thermal interaction with other objects. The most common method is through heat conduction. This happens when two objects of different temperatures …