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UrduIn independent research in the American Journal of Physics, Ian Tregillis and George R.R. Martin derive a formula for viral behavior in the Wild Cards, a science fiction series written by a collection of authors about an alien virus called the Wild Card that mutates human DNA. The formula he derived is a Lagrangian formulation, which considers the different ways a system can evolve. It’s also a fundamental physics principle, which also makes the fictional example a powerful teaching tool.
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‘Frankenstein’ Comes Alive: Horror Literature Expert Studies the Enduring Impact of Mary Shelley’s Monster
In the past 200 years since its debut, the novel “Frankenstein” has been taught worldwide, adapted through every art form and cemented in pop culture. David Sandner, professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, is an expert in science fiction,…
The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram
Holograms are often displayed in science fiction as colorful, life-sized projections. But what seems like the technology of the future is actually the technology of the present. In Applied Physics Reviews, by AIP Publishing, researchers developed an acoustic metasurface-based holography technique that uses a deep learning algorithm to generate and iteratively improve a hologram of the Mona Lisa.