Pi (π) is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, and is used to represent the most widely known mathematical constant. Pi has been known for nearly 4,000 years and was discovered by ancient Babylonians. A tablet from somewhere between 1900-1680 B.C. found pi to be 3.125. The ancient Egyptians

Matthias Maurer, a German ESA astronaut, is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) at the End of October as part of the Cosmic Kiss mission, where he will work and conduct research until spring 2022. It will be Maurer’s first space journey. He has been training for

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) is a research facility at the South Pole in Antarctica. IceCube is maintained and operated by the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and other international funders. Scientific analysis is performed around the world by members

The Neutrino Energy Group, founded in Germany by energy visionary Holger Thorsten Schubart, is like a stealth bomber. Flying out of reach of conventional detection equipment, the Neutrino Energy Group draws inexorably closer to the core of our conventional understanding of electrical energy generation.

In March, a digital artist known as Beeple sold a piece of purely digital art for over $69 million at Christie’s, turning the art world on its head. However, the digital register where that work of art, known as an NFT, is housed emits more carbon into the atmosphere each

The device you are currently reading this article on was born from the silicon revolution. To build modern electrical circuits, researchers control silicon’s current-conducting capabilities via doping, which is a process that introduces either negatively charged electrons or positively charged „holes“ where electrons used to be. This allows the flow

A unique characteristic of exponentially growing scattering amplitude arises in an anomalous Abelian effective field theory when an extremely light Dirac neutrino mass is introduced to break the symmetry. We show that the low energy effective Lagrangian can be made explicitly gauge invariant with the help of a nonlinear representation

In the 1930s, the French physicist Pierre Auger placed Geiger counters along a ridge in the Alps and observed that they would sometimes spontaneously click at the same time, even when they were up to 300 meters apart. He knew that the coincident clicks came from cosmic rays, charged particles

Certain neutrino/matter collisions result in a phenomenon called resonance, which is typified by unusually regular particle scattering after neutrino impact. It’s postulated that this resonance could explain why neutrinos have mass and, therefore, how to exploit this mass better to produce energy. As a collaboration between scientists in Germany, the

Borophene – a sheet of boron just one atom thick – can be stabilized in air by bonding its atoms with hydrogen, researchers in the US have discovered. The new technique was developed Mark Hersam at Northwestern University and colleagues, who found that hydrogenated sheets of borophene (called borophane) oxidized