Occasionally, I’ll revisit some old posts to provide updates and also to introduce the many new subscribers at THB to things they may have missed. The original 2020 post that I revisit today — The ...

In 1687, Sir Isaac laid down the laws of motion in Principia Mathematica- laws which have still held true over 300 years later. In the law of conservation of momentum, he noted that the momentum of a ...

According to Einstein, light consists of particles (photons) that transfer only quantized energy to the electron of the atom. If the photon's energy is sufficient, it knocks the electrons out of the ...

We live and die by data these days. Data rates and latencies are everything, with data centers and chips designed to maximize communication speeds. The hero in the world of data is the optical fiber.

Robert P Crease believes the Trump administration isn’t just punishing US science – it’s destroying it Uncertain times Researchers in the US find themselves unable to plan ahead following the Trump ...