Here’s another great video from the folks at Minute Physics. One of the most famous equations from one of the…
This hot-off-the-press video from the science-explainer folks at Sixty Symbols does a great job of detailing the science of the…
How do magnets affect things at a distance? How does the Sun heat our planet from 93 million miles away?…
Frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (NASA/C. Henze)…
Two white dwarfs similar to those in the system SDSS J065133.338+284423.37 spiral together in this illustration from NASA. Credit: D.…
From a NASA press release: Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after…
Caption: Selfmade Alum Crystal. Weight 5.01g Source: JanDerChemiker via wikimedia commons The second law of thermodynamics states that all isolated…
Last week we talked about energy, and this week we’ll talk about mass. And here’s the crazy thing. Mass, matter,…
Our entire civilization depends on energy: getting it, converting it, burning it, and conserving it. But how do physicists think…
If you're still scratching your head, trying to figure out all the Higgs Boson news, the great folks from MinutePhysics…