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The 10 quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2024
- Escape room at Dresden science museum offers visitors a multisensory experience exploring the world of quantum mechanics.
- The goal is to discover whether Kitty Q, an imaginary being, is dead or alive.
- Austrian physicists have examined the theory of how the supersonic waves created by champagne corks move.
- The US Postal Service released two stamps to mark the James Webb Space Telescope’s success, which took off in 2021.
- Researchers at Georgia Tech have examined how cicadas urinate via a jet, which could lead to better nozzle and robot design.
- Scientists at the University of Leuven in Belgium have used AI algorithms to predict beer quality and taste and how to improve it.
- Researchers at Cornell University have investigated how whirligig beetles use lift-based thrust for swimming.
- A Series of experiments, conducted by physicists at the Technical University of Denmark, reveals that the sweet spot for ‘paper cuts’ is around 65microns.
- The squirting cucumber has its own unique way of ejecting seeds in a high-pressure jet of mucilage.
- According to the infinite monkeys theorem, a monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually type out the complete works of William Shakespeare purely by chance, but would not have enough time in the age of the universe to do so, say researchers in Australia.
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