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Time crystals: the search for a new phase of matter

FiveApril 8, 2022

aken from the April 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Pedram Roushan, from Google’s Quantum...

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FiveMarch 13, 2022

Art

The Sexual Politics of Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’

FiveFebruary 12, 2022February 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CJ7h3mX4Q Video by The Nerdwriter (Evan Puschak) Reading "Leda and The Swan," the sonnet by William Butler Yeats, is an experience—it's a vivid and violent retelling of a Greek myth...

Theories

Sevens Wonders of the Ancient World

FiveFebruary 2, 2022February 1, 2022

[caption id="attachment_79978" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Nick Brundle Photography/Getty Images[/caption] The amazing works of art and architecture known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World serve as a testament to the...

Theories

Ouroboros (or Uroboros)

FiveMay 8, 2021

Ouroboros (or Uroboros) Ancient Greek alchemical symbol of a serpent eating his tail. The mystical work The Chrysopoeia of Kleopatra has a drawing of the Serpent Ouroboros eating his tail,...

Science

The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything

FiveMay 5, 2021

https://youtu.be/f1x9lgX8GaE On Oct. 7, 2015, Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok opened the 2015/16 season of the PI Public Lecture Series with a talk about the remarkable simplicity that underlies nature....