Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, hides one of the oldest puzzles in physics: what really happens to the ...

To alumnus Gal Weitz (EngrPhys, ApMath’22), Boulder was a “dream destination” for undergrad. Now working in quantitative finance, Weitz shares how his education at CU Boulder set him up for success in ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

The United States Physics Team achieved an unprecedented victory at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Paris, winning all five gold medals. The team, Agastya Goel, Allen Li, Joshua ...

The United States Physics Team achieved a historic feat at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in Paris, winning all five gold medals. Team members Agastya Goel, Allen Li, Joshua Wang, ...

Erika Kirk honored late husband Charlie Kirk Friday by posting a heartwarming video of him teaching their daughter some of the basics of physics. In the video, which had already garnered more than 1.3 ...

Us President Donald Trump poses with the five-member US physics team—Agastya Goel, Allen Li, Joshua Wang, Feodor Yevtushenko, and Brian Zhang. (Image credit: @mkratsios47/X) US President Donald Trump ...

Sticky challenge One of the 37 pitch-drop experiments sent by Trinity College Dublin’s School of Physics to secondary schools all over Ireland. (Courtesy: Karl Gaff, TCD School of Physics) Nothing is ...