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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Evelyn’s lab develops advanced microscopy methods, combining microscopy with spectroscopy to study how small molecules are taken up and transported in materials at the molecular level. How small are things at the nanoscale?

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. So what exactly did Boltzmann really do in his 1872 paper?

Energy 88
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We’ve also built our groundbreaking symbolic computational geometry system that lets us flexibly describe regions for PDEs. We’ve already got heat transfer , mass transport and acoustics. We can also take a single video and “summarize” it as a series of video + audio snippets, chosen for example equally spaced in the video.