I'm teaching introductory Newtonian mechanics again this term, and as always I find myself fascinated by bits of the subject that my students are largely indifferent to. This week, that collided with ...

Grover Washington Jr. Middle School teachers Alison Barnes and Gwen Huett don sumo suits to explain basic physics to fifth grade students as part of the "FMA Live! Forces in Motion" performance on ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

THIS volume, which is of a good intermediate standard, is divided into two main sections. The first part consists of thirty-six chapters, and expounds the fundamental principles and laws of physics in ...

As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided to reject the popular mythological explanations for various natural phenomena. Those early philosophers ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

Using basic principles of physics, scientists can compute how much of each type of lithium should have been created during the Big Bang. But, the theory doesn’t match the data. The difference between ...

AUSTRALIA 2025: How will science address the challenges of the future? In collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, we’re asking how each science discipline will contribute to ...

Complex question Could the geometry of chaos play a role in quantum physics and even be a fundamental property of the universe? (Courtesy: iStock/gremlin) Tim Palmer’s provocative proposal is that the ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have observed electrons in graphene flowing like a nearly frictionless liquid, defying a core law of physics. This exotic quantum state not only reveals new ...