British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived, not far from the site of his famous apple tree. The National Trust announced in a recent ...

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Physicists at the University of Vermont have cracked a problem that has puzzled scientists for nearly a century: how to describe the atomic equivalent of a fading guitar string. Their new model ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Code to simulate systems of self-propelled particles with friction (self-propulsion directions unchanging) with Newton's equations of motion, numerically solved with the velocity-Verlet-scheme.

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call “damped harmonic ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between ...

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