The icy ballet of stone upon ice makes curling one of the most intriguing sports of the Winter Olympics. But scientists still ...

Acceleration and thermal energy are physics concepts that can be applied to stock car racing. Jon Feingersh/The Image Bank via Getty Images America has a physics problem. Research shows that access to ...

Some principles of physics – including the first two laws of thermodynamics – seem to invite rebellion. Robert P Crease wonders why Notorious examples of the latter include the first two laws of ...

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Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago will give a talk on “One-way quantum interactions for fun and profit.” Abstract: The ...

I came to physics very late by UK standards: I had already started my freshman year of college. For scheduling reasons, I therefore had to take introductory mechanics with engineers rather than ...

The famous one-way mirror used in police interrogations isn’t really one-way – it’s just a trick of clever lighting. But physics could produce true one-way mirrors, and even walls that are only ...