Physics
What Is John Dalton’s Atomic Model?
Atomic theory - that is, the belief that all matter is composed of tiny, indivisible elements - has very deep…
Live Discussion: How Good is the Science of “Interstellar?”
The highly anticipated film "Interstellar" is based on science and theory; from wormholes, to the push-pull of gravity on a…
New Simulation Offers Stunning Images of Black Hole Merger
A black hole is an extraordinarily massive, improbably dense knot of spacetime that makes a living swallowing or slinging away any morsel of energy…
BICEP2 All Over Again? Researchers Place Higgs Boson Discovery in Doubt
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe, faster is better. Faster means more powerful particle collisions and looking deeper…
Two New Subatomic Particles Found
With its first runs of colliding protons in 2008-2013, the Large Hadron Collider has now been providing a stream of…
Higgs Boson Threatened The Early Universe, But Gravity Saved The Day
All the physical properties of our Universe - indeed, the fact that we even exist within a Universe that we can…
Better than Bieber, Rosetta’s Comet Sings Strange, Seductive Song
Tune in to the song of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Scientists can't figure exactly why yet, but Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been singing since…
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
Unusual Distributions of Organics Found in Titan’s Atmosphere
A new mystery of Titan has been uncovered by astronomers using their latest asset in the high altitude desert of…
The Physics Behind “Interstellar’s” Visual Effects Was So Good, it Led to a Scientific Discovery
While he was working on the film Interstellar, executive producer Kip Thorne was tasked with creating the black hole that…