Tag: physics

ByMichelle Starr Throughout all known space, between the stars and the galaxies, an extremely faint glow suffuses, a relic left over from the dawn of...

ByThe German genius’ general theory of relativity was published more than a century ago, to refine Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Providing a...

ByRhett Allain OK, you have your rubber band (hopefully). Take it and stretch it with your hands, and keep it stretched. Now touch the stretched...

ByPhysics made some of its most vital progress in the 20th century, when scientists like Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger, and Robert Oppenheimer changed the...

ByComing to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on launch day.With next-gen practically in smelling distance, Epic has unveiled a host of technical enhancements coming to...

ByRhett Allain Everyone already uses computers in physics. At the very least, students use handheld calculators (I doubt anyone is still using a slide-rule calculator)....

ByParity was long thought to be “fundamental law of nature” and essentially states that the laws of physics in the universe remain unchanged when...

A TRIO of scientists, Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US, won the Nobel Physics Prize on...

Fiona MacDonald Mirror image is a tricky thing, but it's pretty clear when you look at words in a reflection, that mirrors flip things horizontally...

Rhett Allain If I select a portion of the data at the beginning of the video, I can use a linear fit to determine the...

Charlie Wood In the 1940s, trailblazing physicists stumbled upon the next layer of reality. Particles were out, and fields—expansive, undulating entities that fill space like...

Quarks are commonly considered by physicists as the very building blocks of reality. But even quarks’ greatest champions admit they are extremely bizarre entities....

Shocks, because of their fascinating and complex physics, travel faster than the speed of sound, and they cause far more damage than pressure waves....

Snakes may not have any limbs, but it doesn't stop them from getting around. By wiggling their bodies to-and-fro, these crafty creatures can easily...

While artificial intelligence systems continue to make huge strides forward, they're still not particularly good at dealing with chaos or unpredictability. Now researchers think...

The long-running CBS sitcom ran for an impressive 12 seasons and paved the way for geeky comedy series. However, The Big Bang Theory featured...