Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A year or two later, I had lunch with West one day when he was in ...
At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle ...
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A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos in graduate school, but ...
I was surprised that C&EN would devote two columns to the letter by Harvey Carroll on the matter of atomic weight versus atomic mass (C&EN, Jan. 24, page 4). I realize the majority of the informed ...
Asia Episode 11’s Castle Conquest, explaining how weight, sand resistance, friction, momentum, and leverage determined each ...
The detection of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012 is one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the decade. In the years since, scientists have been carefully measuring its properties, and now the ...
Occasionally there are physics lab demonstrations that I think are pretty awesome but that my students just think are "meh." This is one of those cases. The basic idea in this demo, which I used in my ...