When temperatures drop, you do not just turn up the heat, you also crank up your risk. Winter is... The post The real reason ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule. This ...

Through this framework, he shows how humanism today can offer something of the ceremony and symbolic depth of traditional ...

As Epigram concludes another year of stellar-quality music, our team of writers and editors cast their ballots for the best ...