We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it ...

As a faculty member, I have always believed that education becomes meaningful when it builds connections. Knowledge should not remain confined within disciplinary boundaries; it should travel, ...

Simple science tricks that resemble magic through clever use of physics. Trump withdraws US from 31 bodies in UN, already in ...

Thought experiments can be extremely powerful; after all, pretty much everything that [Einstein] came up with was based on thought experiments. But when a thought experiment turns into a real ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...