I think it’s well known that beer is one of mankind’s greatest inventions. But aside from the perfect taste, and ability to make in-laws seem magically more tolerable, it turns out that beer also has its very own built-in anti-spill mechanism.
Princeton University is celebrating the beauty of science, a selection of of experiments and research papers that result in amazing displays of colour and motion that can be classified as contemporary art. Here are the prettiest ones.
A quantum physics breakthrough that can predict the kinetic energy of electrons in simple metals – and semiconductors – will enable computers to simulate the behaviour of new materials up to 100,000 times faster than they currently can. That’s huge.