Christopher Chyba held a hollow, dark cylinder made of manganese, zinc, and iron in his Princeton lab, looking skeptically at ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

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AIP and APS are excited to award Samson Shatashvili with the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Shatashvili ...

But to understand how things work in the real world, quantum mechanics must be combined with other elements of physics – principally, Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity ...

JAMES: Energy is also transferred through work done. We cover work done in much more detail in our Bitesize Physics ‘forces’ series, so be sure to go back and check that one out. But for a ...

Indian American physicist predicted a new class of exotic particles which could be integral to high-performance electronics ...

Our work helps shape sound policies ... Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics: Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division explores the ...

The devices we depend on in our technological society are based on fundamental principles of physics. Both experimental and theoretical physicists are people who enjoy understanding how things work.

As recognized by the American Physical Society, physics education research is a growing and substantive new sub-discipline within physics. CU Boulder's program of study in PER will include: ...