Nothing could have prepared physicists for the discovery of the muon: an unstable particle with the same charge, but hundreds of times the mass, of the electron.
What We're Reading
Feb
03
2021
Why The Unexpected Muon Was The Biggest Surprise In Particle Physics History, Forbes
Jan
14
2021
Can an AI Predict the Language of Viral Mutation? Wired
Computational biologists used an algorithm meant to model human language to instead predict how viruses could evolve to evade the immune system.
Science in Action: Gravitational Waves and Black Holes, BBC
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) announced it may have detected new kinds of gravitational waves caused by colliding supermassive black holes. Chiara Mingarelli, guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, explains why this is such an exciting discovery.
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2020
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