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The 5 essential ingredients to achieve academic success
Get started. Think about what makes you passionate. Is it science? Then write articles, do research, build things… Is it filming? Then...

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Apr 28, 20212 min read


White Dwarfs and The Heat Death
Nothing is eternal. Not even the universe. With its young 13.8 billion years, the Cosmos remains active with pulsars, quasars,...

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Feb 15, 20215 min read


Schrodinger Equation: Separation of Variables
Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Reference Material: Physics for Scientists and Engineers vol III (Gene Mosca e Paul Tipler)...

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Feb 6, 20211 min read


Relativity: Cosmological Constant X Dark Energy
Although astronomy is one of the oldest and most studied sciences, in the early 20th century, little was known about cosmology, a field...

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Jan 23, 20215 min read



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Jan 10, 20210 min read


The Rocket Equation (with derivation)
Perhaps most known equation in the engineering world, the name “rocket equation” evokes a mathematical relationship of dominant position....

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Nov 28, 20204 min read


Spectroscopy and the great scientists behind it
Spectroscopy is the field of study that allows the analysis of chemical elements, including stars. Through spectroscopy, we discovered...

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Nov 8, 20204 min read


2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is out! Today, 06/10/2020 scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded with the...

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Oct 6, 20201 min read


The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe
*Note: this article is about a hypothesis: the self-reproducing inflationary universe. This hypothesis is based on the theory of...

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Sep 18, 20203 min read


Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
It is widely recommended that the reader pay close attention to the names of the particles for a better understanding of the text....

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Sep 15, 202011 min read


Semiconductors
Semiconductor materials are fundamental for the production of many devices; without them we would not have technologies such as...

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Aug 31, 20207 min read


Schrödinger's cat and the Copenhagen interpretation
Perhaps one of the most famous mental experiments in science, Schrödinger's cat is successful in illustrating the bizarre essence of...

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Aug 9, 20202 min read


Splashdown! (English version)
Welcome to Earth! Astronauts Bob and Doug safely returned to the blue planet after spending two months aboard the ISS. The entire mission...

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Aug 3, 20201 min read


Special relativity
In the "miraculous year", 1905, Albert Einstein had published four of the most important scientific articles in history; among them,...

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Jul 25, 20204 min read


EPR paradox
Albert Einstein repudiated quantum mechanics because of its probabilistic and random character. Einstein, along with other physicists...

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Jul 12, 20205 min read


Quantum information and the information paradox
In science, unpredictability, whether product of observations or peculiar theoretical implications, is something that scientists have to...

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Jun 28, 20204 min read


Hawking radiation in Black Holes
The so-called Hawking radiation, proposed by English physicist Stephen Hawking in 1975, proposes an unlikely combination: relativity and...

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Jun 11, 20208 min read


A new small-big step
After the postponement of the launch due to weather conditions, today (30/05/2020) Space X became the first private space company to send...

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May 30, 20201 min read


Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is one of the pillars of quantum mechanics. It is because of him that much of the peculiar and unique...

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May 23, 20206 min read


Science illiteracy
Science used to be associated with progress, but is this relation still valid? The so called “science illiteracy” is a common phenomenon...

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May 16, 20204 min read
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