Latest Physics Stories
What shape is the universe?
NASCAR may be the fastest road to learning about physics
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Christine Helms/The Conversation
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Aug 15, 2019
Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why
What’s really behind baseball’s recent home run surge
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Brian J. Love and Michael L. Burns/The Conversation
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Jul 23, 2019
How to stare at your phone all day without messing up your body
Why would you want a $10k camera with 100 megapixels anyway?
Smartphone camera flashes are terrible because they don’t really flash
Quantum teleportation is real, but it’s not what you think
Trek’s new bike helmet mimics your brain’s protective fluid
Megapixels: Behold this giant spinning ice disk
Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core
The physics of throwing a perfect baseball pitch
The physics Nobel Prize goes to high-tech lasers and honors the first woman in 55 years
This ocean ‘invisibility cloak’ makes waves bigger and better
Mathematicians finally found the perfect bubble blowing formula
Something called ‘squeezed light’ is about to give us a closer look at cosmic goldmines
We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from
The complex physics behind bending it like a World Cup player
How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games
We may finally know how Easter Island’s giant statues got their jaunty stone hats
Does a black hole ever die?
The universe may be a giant video game, but it certainly isn’t Pac-Man
It’s rude to ask a galaxy’s age. Luckily, its shape offers a clue.
The physics behind a baseball bat’s sweet spot
The ultimate guide to hitting a home run
Stephen Hawking, a man synonymous with the mysteries of the cosmos, is dead at 76
Stephen Hawking thinks he knows what happened before the beginning of time
Razor-sharp snowflakes are wreaking havoc on Olympians’ skis
It turns out our galaxy isn’t as special as we thought
That flickering ‘alien megastructure’ star is probably just dusty
Good news! We’re probably not living in a computer simulation.
Three men just won a Nobel Prize for the work of more than a thousand people
The detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime just won a Nobel Prize
This pretty blue fog only happens in warm champagne
Strange signals were just spotted coming from a distant galaxy
The terrifying way fire ants take advantage of hurricane floods
Mayweather and McGregor’s 8-ounce boxing gloves have started a science fight
Spooky action at a record-breaking distance
Why the universe is so dang empty
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Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
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May 12, 2017
Space Shots: The Universe’s Best Images
What’s the best way to crack an egg? Physics has the answer.
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Hanna Bolaños
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Apr 24, 2017
Raindrops spew bacteria into the air as they burst—and it’s kind of beautiful
What is causing these black and white bars to change direction?
From the archives: In 1999, Eugene Cernan knew we’d make it to Mars
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Popular Science, July 1999, by Frank Vizard
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Jan 19, 2017
Now you can 3D print your own sonic tractor beam
Antimatter just got a little bit less mysterious
How Boston’s 1919 molasses flood turned so deadly
Iridescent Leaves Take Advantage Of Quantum Mechanics To Thrive In The Shade
This Battery-Free Generator Is Made From Fish Scales
Scientist Thinks He’s Proven Hawking’s Theory That Black Holes Glow
‘Stranger Things,’ Parallel Universes, And The State Of String Theory
Ghost-Particle Hunters Come Up Empty-Handed
Elon Musk Still Believes We’re Living In A Simulation, Others Aren’t So Sure
Scientists Are Using Wormholes To Make Black Holes Less Weird
The Large Hadron Collider Just Disappointed A Lot Of Physicists
SESAME Hopes To Transcend Borders With Groundbreaking Science
‘Ghostbusters’ Star Kate McKinnon Is Obsessed With Physics
Watch Super-Powerful Electromagnets Shrink Quarters
This Enormous Telescope Will Study Neutrinos From The Depths Of The Ocean Floor
First Test For Machine That Could Change The Future Of Particle Physics
Cats May Understand Cause And Effect, Study Finds
Adorable Baby Falcon Found At CERN
Phone Cameras Could Get As Sharp As DSLRs, By Bending Laws Of Nature
Singer Simonne Jones Fuses Pop Music and Quantum Physics