Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces. ..
It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces. ..
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in. ..
If you’re resorting to more, uh, unconventional pest control methods, you’ll want to read this first. ..
Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics. ..
A globe-spanning group of physicists used pulsars to measure the waves, which they believe emanated from pairs of supermassive black holes. ..
Isaac Newton connected the two motions in a way that revolutionized physics and made space travel possible. ..
This Star Wars Day, it’s time to figure out how these iconic flying machines work, and if there’s anything like them on Earth. ..
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed. ..
Richard Feynman’s path integral is a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy. Physicists still struggle to figure out how to use it, and what it means. ..
New calculations suggest that the event horizons will eventually “decohere” quantum possibilities—even those that are far away. ..