A list of simple and fun facts of physics for you to digest!

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

Researchers used human and human-shaped baits to figure out how mosquitoes use cues like color and smell to change their ...

In all of human history, 41-year-olds have not been able to dunk a basketball, let alone acrobatically. Then came LeBron ...

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A specter is haunting New York politics – the specter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Over the past 10 years, the socialist organization has had its ups and downs, but recently it has been on ...

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics. It in no way reflects my feelings toward Quanta staff ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

There is a long history of doing physics by imagination. Albert Einstein built his special theory of relativity after imagining himself chasing a beam of light. Erwin Schrödinger gave us a cat that ...

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours. When ...

While auto safety experts find the new dummy designs promising, there are limitations to physical tools when testing vehicle crash outcomes. The 5th percentile federal standard for female dummies is 4 ...