Tag: volcanoes
What lies beneath: unearthing the secret interior lives of planets – Physics World
Ian Randall reviews What’s Hidden Inside Planets? by Sabine Stanley
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Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionOn November 10, 2023, KristÃn Jónsdóttir, head of the Icelandic Meteorological Office’s department of volcano research, was having a rare day off. “It was...
Why VR? Flying Through The Eiffel Tower With Your Sister
The twins traded off driving the toy camper through the tall grass. Plastic camper in hand, they would play in the front yard for time...
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple set of rules for creating complex behavior. His Game of Life, often referred...
What volcanoes and coffeemaking have in common, the physics of playing the didjeridu – Physics World
What do volcanic eruptions and grinding coffee have in common? According to a team of...
She Decodes Quakes From Undersea Volcanoes (and Taylor Swift) | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWe often think of volcanoes as skyscraping marvels, but these portals to the geologic underworld also reside underwater. Unfortunately, submarine volcanoes are trickier to...
Icy Oceans Exist on Far-Off Moons. Why Aren’t They Frozen Solid? | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionFor most of humankind’s existence, Earth was the only known ocean-draped world, seemingly unlike any other cosmic isle.
But in 1979, NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft...
Reddam House Integrates VR and Metaverse Across Campuses
Reddam House schools are leading the charge in a rapidly evolving educational landscape by seamlessly integrating virtual reality (VR) and the metaverse into their...
In the arena, Bitcoin Mining gone volcano, and Optimism Fraud Proofs
Story OneIn the arenaWhen people on crypto Twitter are not thinking about the Roman Empire or tokenizing Uranium, they spend their time on SocialFi...
Earth-sized planet could be lurking at the edge of the solar system, simulations suggest – Physics World
A hidden planet with a mass about 1.5–3 times that of Earth could be lurking at...
Zircons, plate tectonics and the mystery of life – Physics World
Magnetic data locked in ancient crystals suggest that life may have emerged long before the Earth’s tectonic plates started moving. If...
Predicting natural disasters using cosmic muons – Physics World
Every minute, up to 10,000 muons rain down on every square meter of the Earth’s surface, ghosting through our bodies as...
Earth, wind and water: how cosmic muons are helping to study volcanoes, cyclones and more – Physics World
Michael Allen peers into the depths of natural disasters, as he speaks to the physicists who are using muon tomography to...