Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.

Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

They discovered a way around an important quantum physics law, enabling a future ability to navigate an interstellar journey, ...

To be fair, humans aren't shaped like sheep or grains. And unlike in the study with the board, Zuriguel believes that all ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

What if the bridge between our worlds isn’t language at all, but physics? In a recent episode of SETI Live, theoretical physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson, co-author of Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other ...

Physics faculty say the fellowship, given to 6 women and nonbinary students, was cut for following the former DOE's ...

Khan, who grew up in Pakistan and has lived in other countries such as Libya and England, said the immigrant population adds ...

Sorta sparked by this comment someone made to me but it's similar to what other people have told me before: I was listening to a lecture on quantum electrodynamics and it helped me conceptualize the ...

Many spider species build spiral wheel-shaped webs – orb webs – to capture prey, and some incorporate so-called “stabilimenta ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...