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Jiwi embarks on a quirky yet insightful experiment to balance books in more ways than one testing physical equilibrium and ...

Physics, particularly forces and motion, can be challenging. By observing everyday motion, conducting simple experiments, and understanding Newton's laws in plain language, the concepts become ...

Atoms slip against one another, eventually sticking in various combinations. Tectonic plates do the same, sliding across each ...

Science Physics Why crossword puzzles get easier as you solve them, according to physics Here's how 'percolation theory’ applies to avalanches and brainteasers.

How a simple physics experiment could reveal the “dark dimension ... it typically conjures images from the wildest science fiction – of portals in the fabric of space-time and parallel worlds.

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In 2021, Parisi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in part for his work describing mathematically the behavior of exotic materials called spin glasses — metal alloys with constituent atoms that ...

Yet “Existential Physics” still promises in its subtitle to be “A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.” Potential readers may suspect a quantum cake both had and eaten ...

Nobody does pasta quite like the Italians, as anyone who has tasted an authentic "pasta alla cacio e pepe" can attest. It's a simple dish: just tonnarelli pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper.

The 101-year-old novel shows that "physics and literature are not mutually exclusive." In his paper, Manos notes that the fictional Bloom fancies himself a man familiar with science, but Joyce ...

This is not how we expected science to turn out. It's a bit like in the 16th century when we first started to get evidence that we weren't in the centre of the universe.