Many a high school smoker has built a gravity bong on the back porch to get stupid high on some mid-grade marijuana, but whatever contraption you rigged up with hot glue and soda bottles probably didn ...

You’re probably familiar with the old joke about a physicist who, when asked to use science to help a dairy farmer, begins by approximating a spherical cow in a vacuum. But maybe it’s time to ...

Weird effect: Have you ever noticed that screwdrivers in your toolbox can seemingly change form? (Courtesy: iStock/M_a_y_a) As a new decade dawns, you will be thrilled to learn that I have come across ...

There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the ...

Stephen Wolfram blames himself for not changing the face of physics sooner. At its heart, Wolfram’s new approach is a computational picture of the cosmos—one where the fundamental rules that the ...