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7 votes
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How carbon nanotubes have the potential to change the world
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Claims of microwave attacks are scientifically implausible
11 votes -
How to understand the universe when you’re stuck inside of it
5 votes -
Whitest paint ever created could have air-con like cooling effects
10 votes -
The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
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Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions
9 votes -
Microsoft built the quietest place on Earth
12 votes -
Results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment indicate new physics with 4.2 sigma confidence, stronger than previous measurements
23 votes -
Ketchup is not just a condiment: It is also a non-Newtonian fluid
10 votes -
Why your pee looks like a chain
10 votes -
Imaginary numbers may be essential for describing reality
5 votes -
Quantum cooling to near-absolute zero
6 votes -
Decades-long quest reveals details of the proton’s inner antimatter
6 votes -
What's up with the ozone layer?
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Laser + mirror + sound — Visualizing sound waves with a laser
6 votes -
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float
27 votes -
Automatic pool cue vs. strangers
6 votes -
Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
8 votes -
Discoveries at the edge of the Periodic Table: First ever measurements of Einsteinium
8 votes -
Harvard astrophysicist says 2017 interstellar object sighting was humanity’s first contact with an artifact of extraterrestrial intelligence
12 votes -
Reusable handwarmers that get hot by freezing
8 votes -
Richard Feynman and the bomb
8 votes -
Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks
11 votes -
Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass'
7 votes -
‘Milestone’ evidence for anyons, a third kingdom of particles
14 votes -
"I can't believe it's not optical!"—How satellites use synthetic aperture radar to see more than they otherwise should
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New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely: The design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time
13 votes -
Korean fusion project sets the new world record of twenty second long operation at 100 million degrees
14 votes -
Cameras and lenses
6 votes -
Is it possible to make a laser out of wood?
9 votes -
What if Earth got kicked out of the solar system? Rogue Earth
3 votes -
Australian telescope maps new atlas of the universe in record speed
5 votes -
What is a particle?
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Teardown preview - A voxel ray-traced game on PC with next-generation destruction and physics
19 votes -
Lava lamp centrifuge
8 votes -
Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math
11 votes -
Elliptic Orbits explained by Albert Baez
4 votes -
The self-levitating Kingsbury aerodynamic bearing
9 votes -
The incredible physics behind N95 masks
9 votes -
Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
5 votes -
Meet Oklo, the Earth’s two-billion-year-old only known natural nuclear reactor
17 votes -
507 movements
8 votes -
Can we save energy, jobs, and growth at the same time?
5 votes -
New evidence for cyclic universe claimed by Roger Penrose and colleagues
6 votes -
2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries
9 votes -
A new cosmic tension: The universe might be too thin
5 votes -
What is a great book to learn high-school level physics?
That's a requirement for a test I'm going to take. I tend to learn better with well designed, reasonably comprehensive books that don't treat me like a dumbass (not as a genius either!). Please...
That's a requirement for a test I'm going to take. I tend to learn better with well designed, reasonably comprehensive books that don't treat me like a dumbass (not as a genius either!).
Please notice that I'm not asking for websites, interactive platforms, videos, or whatever, but about books, preferably ones that I can study on my Kindle (so PDFs are not ideal). I know all the major websites but I just can't follow them.
I can pay very small amounts but I'm pretty much unemployed in a third world country so free is always better.
If there are requirements to understand such books, kindly inform!
I finished school more than 20 years ago and I was not a good student. But I'm kind of a decent learner now that I have a diagnostics (ADHD).
Thanks a bunch!
EDIT: guys, I am actually a beginner in the sense that I literally know little to nothing about the subject! I'm also not a math wizard. Advanced suggestions are appreciated but also entirely useless. This is also for a test, so, beyond a very brief introduction, general understandings on the Neil DeGrasse Tyson level is also of little use for me. I don't need to understand the beauty of the cosmos, I need to pass a test. Thanks!
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LIGO/Virgo’s newest black hole merger defies mass expectations
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Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
5 votes