Thermodynamics was built to describe steam engines and stars, yet the same equations now sit at the heart of quantum ...

We wrote recently to IN‘s “man in Mexico” to ask him how he analyzed the recent privatization of PEMEX, the giant oil company ...

Quantum experiments keep stripping away our everyday intuitions, replacing them with a picture of reality in which cause, effect and even “facts” depend on how we look. New tests of entanglement, ...

Hybrid materials made of magnets and superconductors give rise to fascinating quantum phenomena, which are so sensitive that ...

When infected with Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cells undergo substantial changes. The malaria-inducing parasite causes modifications in the structure and mechanical properties of the cells, as ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

Amoebae living in a creek in Mumbai are acting as a "Trojan horse," harboring and protecting multidrug resistant bacteria, according to new research. The study, led by the University of Strathclyde, ...

Three papers published in JCAP presenting the sixth and final data release of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer a new map of the “infant” Universe, confirm the “Hubble tension,” and rule out a set ...

Leveraging nonhuman primates, researchers are starting to understand how amniotic fluid changes through pregnancy, offering advancements in prenatal and preterm care.

For vectors in ℝ n, for example, we also have geometric intuition involving the length of a vector or the angle formed by two vectors. In this chapter we discuss inner product spaces, which are vector ...