When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...

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Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

First-year physics students at Cornell now discover answers instead of confirming known ones, thanks to a research-based lab ...

Far in the rolling highlands of north China, a serene basin once held one of mankind’s best survival stories. The Nihewan ...

Solving major regional and global environmental problems is a key part of sociopolitics and so environmental physics has a special role to play in the public arena. It gives students the chance to ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Claudio Chamon will join the Purdue University College of Science beginning fall 2025. Photo by Frank Curran. Quantum science is the next frontier in scientific achievement and Purdue University is ...

In a study published in Reports on Progress in Physics, researchers have achieved device-independent characterization of ...

Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...