physics

Here is a summary of the key content from the referenced Nature article "Microsoft quantum computing ‘breakthrough’ faces fresh challenge" (Dan Garisto, Nature, March 7, 2025): The article discusses skepticism and scientific critique regarding Microsoft's 2023 claim to have created the first...

If you're like me, you'll love playing around with physics. The Powder Toy is a sandbox game that gives you a plethora of different materials with which to play! From powders, solids, gasses, electronic, even radioactive materials. You can also load saves that other people have made, others have...

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Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly... Link Removed [Post Copied in Full] Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as...

Unity is a fantastic utility for creating graphically-rich high-performance games and apps. Using the editor, you can quickly create 2D and 3D worlds, and define interactions, game logic and physics rules in easy-to-understand C# scripts. Apps created by Unity run on multiple platforms...

Just in time for Halloween, here are our picks for the five best new apps for the Surface tablet and Lumia phones. Are the ghosts and goblins of Halloween making you feel lifeless? Revitalize with these five new apps—all games this week!–that deserve a spot on your Lumia or Surface. Link...

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Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted another great example of using the Kinect v2, this time using it and its capabilities to start an Avatar journey... Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; Kinect 2, Sound Detection with C++ More on the openFrameworks...

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This question could be best dealt with by geologists or scientists versed in natural physics, but I would settle for someone just more knowledgeable than myself. There are a couple of paranormal video series that I have been following, that have created a question in my mind, particularly one...

Often copied but never equalled the original Half Life was huge. It blew the industry away and showed many how it should really be done. Well that was way back in 98' and for several years now fans of the series have been waiting for a remake of the original. Fans loved the game so much they...

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When Brian Miser shouts "Fire!" at the launch of his human cannonball routine, he means it. The 47-year-old star of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's new show, "Fully Charged," has added a new twist to the circus classic: a blazing inferno. Called the "Human Fuse," Miser launches...

Link Removed Ibn al-Haytham's 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published exactly 1000 years ago, is often cited alongside Newton's Principia as one of the most influential books in physics. Yet very little is known about the writer, considered by many to be the father of modern optics...