In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

There’s something strangely fascinating about the idea that a person could attract metal objects to their body like a living ...

I t’s off! The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission is on its way to Mars. It was sent ...

Turbulent flow looks like chaos — swirling, unpredictable, and out of control — yet it hides some of the most intricate patterns in nature. From storm clouds to jet engines, it governs how energy ...

Thanks to a dismal birth rate and even worse public school system, our native-born labor force is getting smaller and dumber ...

DayZ and Kerbal Space Program's creators have joined forces with an ex-SpaceX engineer to create the ultimate spaceflight ...

A prestigious organization that advances physics research, education and outreach recognized a Georgetown University physics ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Ionic defects are present in every frost sheet. Jonathan Boreyko’s team at Virginia Tech has used a high-voltage technique to ...

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded four years of funding ($4.8 million) to The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign. The award supports a ...