C.N. Yang, a Nobel laureate and pioneering physicist, was born in 1922, contributed groundbreaking work such as the Yang‑Mills gauge theory and parity violation discovery, and devoted his later years to nurturing Chinese science, exemplifying a lifelong commitment to both discovery and national service.
Google DeepMind hired Shunyu Yao, a Tsinghua physics prodigy and former Anthropic researcher, whose rapid transition from theoretical physics to AI highlights the intense workload, values clash, and the accelerating pace of large‑model research.
The article surveys expert predictions for the 2025 Nobel Prizes, highlighting AI‑powered breakthroughs in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry—including protein‑structure prediction, quantum information, next‑generation DNA sequencing, microbiome research, and novel weight‑loss drugs—while outlining key candidates and timelines.
The Monte Carlo method, a probabilistic numerical technique introduced in the 1940s, uses extensive random sampling to tackle high‑dimensional problems, with key applications in numerical integration, statistical simulation, financial risk assessment, physical system modeling, and optimization, highlighting its versatility and limitations.
This article explores the physics behind basketball free throws, detailing projectile motion, the impact of air resistance, and how optimal launch angles and initial speeds can be determined and refined through mathematical modeling and optimization techniques.
Exploring the universe’s five core components—spacetime, fundamental particles, natural forces, natural laws, and physical constants—this article explains how each element shapes reality, from the curvature of space to the interactions of quarks and the governing laws that bind the cosmos together.
From a wartime interview where Feynman urged a novelist to learn calculus as the language of God, through Newton's plague‑ridden youth and his hidden use of infinitesimals, to the Leibniz‑Newton controversy and modern applications, this article traces how calculus became the indispensable tool of science and engineering.
This article explores how linear algebra—through matrices, vectors, and linear transformations—underpins diverse fields such as artificial intelligence, data science, computer graphics, economics, physics, engineering, and social network analysis, illustrating its practical impact on everyday technologies and scientific models.
Explore the fascinating evolution of the seven SI base units—meter, second, kilogram, kelvin, ampere, mole, and candela—detailing how each transitioned from historical, Earth‑based definitions to precise modern standards anchored in constants like the speed of light, atomic transitions, and quantum phenomena.
This article explores how differential equations serve as the mathematical language that describes phenomena ranging from planetary orbits and cosmic expansion to atmospheric dynamics, cellular reactions, ecological interactions, electrical circuits, and financial markets, highlighting their universal role in modeling change.
This article explains the mathematical basis and step‑by‑step Python/Pygame implementation of an automatic missile‑tracking algorithm for a shooting game, covering time‑slice integration, angle calculation, image rotation handling, and provides complete source code for a functional demo.
This article explains how Einstein’s theory of relativity, through time dilation, gravitational effects, GPS timing adjustments, and nuclear energy, subtly influences everyday experiences such as travel, high‑rise living, navigation, and our perception of time.
This article surveys the various kinds of numbers—natural, integers, rational, irrational, real, complex, hypercomplex, vectors, matrices, and tensors—explaining their definitions, mathematical significance, and practical applications in fields such as computer science, engineering, physics, graphics, and machine learning.
This tutorial shows how front‑end developers can use the Dora SSR game engine’s TSX support to create a simple Angry‑Birds‑like game in fewer than 100 lines of code, covering scene setup, physics, UI components, touch controls, scoring logic, and cross‑platform deployment.
This article reviews the book “24 Formulas that Rule the Universe,” summarizing key equations—from Euler’s identity and Gaussian distribution to Einstein’s field equation and the uncertainty principle—while highlighting their scientific significance and the level of physics knowledge required to grasp them.
This article uses a simple acoustic attenuation model—combining geometric spreading and atmospheric absorption—to estimate the maximum distance at which Sun Wukong can hear the Tang monk’s tightening spell, arriving at an approximate effective range of about 311 meters.
Confucius watches two children argue about a brick’s sinking time, then uses physics—gravity, buoyancy, drag—and a mathematical model with Python code to estimate how long the brick takes to reach the bottom of various oceans, highlighting differences due to depth and terminal velocity.
This article explores the fundamental physics and mathematics behind game development, covering object motion models, scrolling techniques, collision detection, ray casting, screen transition effects, and provides Python code examples to illustrate how these concepts are implemented in practice.
The article explains the entropy increase law (the second law of thermodynamics), illustrating how isolated systems become more disordered, why heat flows from hot to cold, and how everyday examples like cooling coffee or refrigerators demonstrate local order at the cost of greater overall disorder.
This article introduces the fundamental concepts and mathematical description of diffusion, explores its wide-ranging applications from daily life to environmental engineering, and demonstrates its use through a detailed ink‑in‑water example and a lake‑spill case study.
This article explains the one‑dimensional heat conduction equation, covering its basic assumptions, derivation from energy conservation, relationship between heat flux and temperature gradient, and solution methods including separation of variables and numerical techniques, while highlighting the role of initial and boundary conditions.
Exploring the inverse square law, this article explains its core mathematical expression, its pivotal role in gravity and electrostatic forces, and extends the concept as a metaphor to illustrate patterns in information diffusion, interpersonal relationships, and international trade within social sciences.
By exploring Einstein’s famous maxim that ‘things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler,’ this article reveals how balancing simplification with realism guides the construction, validation, and refinement of mathematical models across physics and beyond.
From population growth and disease spread to radioactive decay, cooling laws, chemical reactions, and chaotic systems, this article explores how first‑order differential equations serve as a universal mathematical language that precisely describes dynamic processes across biology, physics, chemistry, and economics.
Derivatives, the core concept of calculus, originated from Newton’s instantaneous speed, Leibniz’s tangent, and Fermat’s extremum problems, and are defined as the limit of a function’s change ratio, linking continuity, geometry, and physics, while finding extensive applications across science, economics, and biology.
This article explores the classic catenary curve—its definition, historical development, and mathematical derivation—while examining whether it can model a kite’s string under wind, highlighting the assumptions of the model and suggesting more realistic approaches such as advanced derivations or simulation.
Analyzing how walking speed and wind direction affect the amount of rain a person absorbs, this article models a person as a rectangular prism and derives formulas showing that, under no‑wind conditions, faster movement reduces wetness, while certain wind scenarios can reverse this relationship.
The article explains how ants can lift objects many times their weight by leveraging their huge surface‑to‑volume ratio, contrasting this with human scaling, and explores how surface area influences air resistance, falling speed, and even the challenges ants face with water due to surface tension.
Mathematical models serve as essential bridges between theory and reality across natural and social sciences, enabling precise expression of concepts—from Newtonian mechanics and Einstein’s relativity to quantum uncertainty—while driving computational advances and deepening our understanding of the universe.
This article explores the concept of entropy, tracing its origins from the second law of thermodynamics through Shannon’s information entropy, illustrating its mathematical definition, physical meaning, and practical examples, and even discusses how the principle can be applied to personal growth and organizational management.
This guide demonstrates how to enable touch‑based movement for a hero character, add directional walking animations, integrate animation logic, and implement physics‑based collision detection with walls in Cocos Creator, including code snippets for event handling, animation state management, and physics component setup.
Dimensional analysis uses the principle of homogeneity to relate physical quantities, defining basic and derived dimensions, forming dimensionless groups via the Buckingham Pi theorem, and applying them—such as to model ship wave resistance—while highlighting the importance of selecting appropriate variables and recognizing method limitations.
This article models a 60 kg human free‑falling from 10 km, analyzes forces such as gravity, buoyancy and air resistance, computes minimum and maximum terminal velocities for different body orientations, and estimates that roughly 6 m of loosely packed cotton or feather‑down would be required to prevent injury, with larger safety margins suggesting 10 m or more.
This article traces the pivotal role of mathematics from the 18th‑century golden age of classical mechanics through Maxwell's equations, Einstein's relativity, biological modeling, game‑theoretic economics, the birth of modern computers, and the emergence of chaos and fractal theory, highlighting key figures and breakthroughs that linked abstract theory to real‑world applications.
Version 0.7 of the open‑source Oasis Engine introduces a suite of enhancements—including a new text renderer, ClearCoat PBR material, dynamic PhysX colliders, expanded BlendShape support, HDR skybox loading, keyboard interaction, and API refinements—plus comprehensive documentation and example updates for developers.
Oasis Engine 0.5 introduces a redesigned animation system with Animator, BlendShape support, a revamped PBR material interface using spherical harmonics, new 2D SpriteAtlas tools, enhanced physics APIs, expanded Spine and Lottie components, plus dozens of examples and higher test coverage, setting the stage for the upcoming 0.6 milestone.
This tutorial walks you through creating a multi‑platform “Merge Big Watermelon” mini‑game using Cocos Creator, covering game rules, engine architecture, project structure, component‑based scripting, physics and collision handling, asset management, build configuration, and publishing to various platforms.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to create a simple “merge watermelon” HTML5 game using Phaser 3, TypeScript, and Matter.js physics, covering project setup, asset loading, fruit creation, input handling, collision logic, scoring, and game‑over detection.
The article discusses methods for teaching circuit fault diagnosis in a classroom setting, focusing on modeling circuit components as edges and using a linked list to manage break points dynamically.
This article examines why easing curves matter for user experience, derives them from physical formulas, presents common easing functions with full source code, analyses Apple ScrollView dynamics using MATLAB curve fitting, and demonstrates how to recreate app animations through linear interpolation and practical tooling.
Google announced achieving quantum supremacy by completing a computation in 3 minutes 20 seconds that would take the world’s most powerful supercomputer Summit roughly 10,000 years, marking a milestone in quantum computing despite ongoing debates about its practical impact.
The article commemorates Stephen Hawking’s life, outlines his groundbreaking work in cosmology and black holes, and highlights his profound reflections on artificial intelligence, including his 2017 speech and numerous predictions about AI’s future impact on humanity.
This article explores how fundamental geometric principles influence diverse designs, covering the honeycomb conjecture, slime‑mold network experiments, the physics of vinyl records, never‑loose nuts, Fibonacci sequences in nature, the golden ratio myth, and hidden geometric secrets in famous logos.
A project‑based LEGO Car Rally program teaches sixth‑grade students core physics, math and industrial design concepts through hands‑on car building, allowing repeated failure and success while replacing traditional exams with performance‑based assessment.
The essay explores how information, translation, and hierarchical structures underpin our perception of reality, linking bio‑hacking, physics, culture, and philosophy while highlighting the quest for a unified key to connect all levels of existence.
In a candid dialogue at Tsinghua's Global Management Forum, Elon Musk discusses his educational journey, the role of physics and interdisciplinary learning in innovation, the challenges of building Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity, and his vision for reusable rockets, electric vehicles, and a multi‑planetary future.
The article philosophically examines whether time is a basic material of the universe by discussing cellular clocks, Planck time, black holes, deterministic causality, and Rafael Sorkin's causal‑set theory, highlighting paradoxes that arise when treating time as a fundamental substance.
