How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon.

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...

The rabbit hole of quantum gets weirder the deeper you go—but also has plenty of promise.

Mike Edmunds and Zbig Sobiesierski argue that student learning can be boosted by enthusiasm, engagement and enablement ...

Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras ...

Scientists at Princeton University have made a groundbreaking discovery in quantum materials, revealing that electron energy levels in certain systems follow a fractal pattern known as Hofstadter’s ...

Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated to achieve. Now, we can use ...

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Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...