Discover the intriguing world of physics by exploring the Brachistochrone problem through a fun and engaging experiment with Hot Wheels cars! Find out how gravity affects speed and learn which path a ...

When applying the Work-Energy Principle, it’s crucial to remember two often-overlooked ideas that can affect your results. Understanding how non-conservative forces and changes in potential energy ...

It's the start of a new school year for many students, and everyone, including the faculty, needs to get ready for some tough classes—especially while dealing with Covid-19. Although I've only been ...

Nobel season is always cool. I sit by my phone and wait... But seriously, I find it fascinating to learn what scientific discoveries the Nobel committee thinks are really, really important. Most of ...

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Physics, as champions of the subject will remind you, is the cornerstone of many professions, including those in engineering, health care, aerospace, and architecture. And for students hoping to ...

What are the key components to snaring a Nobel Prize in physics? Be passionate. Be persistent. And make a few mistakes, said UCLA professor Andrea Ghez. “In science, you’re constantly making mistakes, ...

Don't ask Oppenheimer's leading man Cillian Murphy to explain the physics — theoretical or otherwise — behind the atomic bomb. He doesn't understand the logistics behind making J. Robert Oppenheimer's ...

Bio: Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having retired in July 2025 after ...

Last fall, physicist Alessandro Strumia was suspended from CERN, birthplace of the Higgs boson, after he gave a lecture on why his field skews so male in which he argued that it’s about inherent ...

Great Mysteries of Physics explores the multiverse, time and more in a six-part podcast. Miriam Frankel is joined by physicists such as Sean Carroll and New Scientist columnist Chanda ...