Physics

The Secret of the Stars

"Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you. The concept: relativity." Well look at that, it's…

12 years ago

Light-travel-time Effect Finds New Astronomical Applications

Sometimes the tried and true methods are still the best, even in observational astronomy. Researchers at the University of Prague…

12 years ago

Watch a Million Particles Collide

What happens when you give 1,000,000 particles their own gravity and spring repulsion and send them out to play? Watch…

12 years ago

Supernovae Seed Universe With Cosmic Rays

In a wave of media releases, the latest studies performed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are lighting up the…

12 years ago

Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”

It's a crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules all over the Universe... While we're still a very long…

12 years ago

The Face of Creation

The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell's Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done…

12 years ago

Stephen Hawking and CERN LHC Team Each Win $3 Million Prize

Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider's underground tunnel at Europe's CERN particle physics research center in 2006. Hawking and…

12 years ago

Common Misconceptions in Physics

The folks at Minute Physics keep coming up with videos too great not to share. This one deals with gravity,…

12 years ago

Black Hole Jets Might Be Molded by Magnetism

Visible-light Hubble image of the jet emitted by the 3-billion-solar-mass black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 (Feb. 1998)…

12 years ago

Minute Physics: Why E=mc² is Incomplete

Here’s another great video from the folks at Minute Physics. One of the most famous equations from one of the…

12 years ago