Writing
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As a physics graduate my family has sent me dozens of questions ranging from “Is the Mandela Effect real?” (not a physics question) to “Why did my Corningware dish explode in the oven?” (definitely a physics question). Hands down the most common question I get is whether it’s safe to use a microwave oven to heat food.
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AI is here, it is changing the way we work and live, and the rate of progress is only going to speed up.
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Like most physicists, I’ve always ‘nerded out’ over new technology, but quantum computing is particularly exciting to me. Quantum computers are not simply more powerful classical computers. They constitute a fundamentally different computing paradigm.
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One of the best parts about the two summers I spent at CERN was my immersion in the culture of particle physicists who love art.
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Last week a group of physicists at York University published a new precision measurement of the proton charge radius in the journal Science.
Melissa Valdez, MSc 