Scientific / IT / Maths

Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods

If you want to see Venice with dry feet, don't go when the sun has lots of spots. Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often

 
Quantum electron 'submarines' help push atoms around

Injecting electrons beneath the surface of a silicon wafer could move us closer towards building things atom by atom

 
Spinning black holes could expose exotic particles

If a potential dark matter particle ? the axion ? exists, it could reveal itself in explosions around black holes

 
Time to go atomic on space station

The most accurate clock ever sent to space will soon be hosted by the International Space Station ? it could help to reveal changes in nature's fundamental constants

 
Master stroke: A formula for record-breaking rowing?

There are many ways to row a boat, but it took a physicist to figure out which should work best

 

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