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Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,220 km (760 mi), which is...

Unsolved problem in physics: Is it possible to make a material that is a superconductor at room temperature and atmospheric pressure? (more unsolved problems...

Impulse noise is a category of (acoustic) noise that includes unwanted, almost instantaneous (thus impulse-like) sharp sounds (like clicks and pops)—typically...

A fibre-optic gyroscope (FOG) senses changes in orientation using the Sagnac effect, thus performing the function of a mechanical gyroscope. However its...

Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Mersini) is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at...

Soap films are thin layers of liquid (usually water-based) surrounded by air. For example, if two soap bubbles come into contact, they merge and a thin...

Ptychography (/t(ʌ)ɪˈkogræfi/ t(a)i-KO-graf-ee)[citation needed] is a computational method of microscopic imaging. It generates images by processing many...

In semi-Riemannian geometry, the Bel decomposition, taken with respect to a specific timelike congruence, is a way of breaking up the Riemann tensor of...

Guo Kexin (Chinese: 郭可信; 1923–2006), also known as Ke-Xin Guo or K. H. Kuo (Ke-Hsin Kuo), was a Chinese chemical engineer, physicist, metallurgist and...

Lu Jeu Sham (Chinese: 沈呂九) (born April 28, 1938) is an American physicist. He is best known for his work with Walter Kohn on the Kohn–Sham equations. Lu...

Whenever a wave forms through a medium/object (organ pipe) with a closed/open end, there is a chance of error in the formation of the wave, i.e. it may...

Swapan Kumar Gayen (Bengali: স্বপন কুমার গায়েন) is a Bengali-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at the City College of New York. Gayen was...

Annick Loiseau (born 1957) is a French physicist who is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research Laboratory of Microstructure...

David Muir Wood FICE FREng FRSE is an academic working in the field of geomechanics (the mechanics of geomaterials) and soil mechanics, famous for having...

Einstein's God Model is a 2016 American independent science fiction film written, directed, and edited by Philip T. Johnson. It was produced by Craig Dow...

Bhupati Mohan Sen (listen) was an Indian physicist and mathematician. He made remarkable contributions in the fields of Quantum Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics...