Nuclear fusion has long been the energy world’s moonshot, a reaction so powerful and so difficult to tame that many ...
Dreaming of visiting other stars? The universe has built in walls we cannot break. This video confronts the harsh physics ...
Scientists have created a 'time-crystal' a two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws of physics. A 'two-level system' is a basic building block of a quantum computer. Time crystals ...
Let’s face it, bending the rules is fun, even as adults. But the great thing about being a scientist is that you literally get paid to bend the rules of actual science, especially physics, which has a ...
Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical ...
A pair of scientists from the UK recently published a pre-print research paper discussing the theory of a universe with no beginning. Imagine it: our universe has always existed. The Big Bang either ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a way to study the world at a level previously thought impossible. The Nobel Assembly announced that Pierre Agostini, ...
Alternative reality If a lifeboat is never used, because the ship it is on never sinks, is it still a lifeboat? (Courtesy: iStock/Tramino) If a 1 kg mass is dropped from a height of 100 m, what is its ...
Pondering the scale of the cosmos can feel as if you’re peering over the edge of the brink; it can be daunting enough to make you want to flee to the comforts of working, commuting, and other ...