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Is It Even Possible to Understand Quantum Mechanics?

Common sense is of no help in studying reality at the atomic scale.

Make: Live – Physics in Action

Join Dale Dougherty and Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, authors of the new Make: Physics book, to discover how their hands-on physics experiments can transform passive learning into...

Squeeze More Juice Out of Your Dead Batteries—Using Physics

How the joule thief circuit “steals” energy from seemingly depleted power cells.

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What Is Entropy, Really?

Never mind the “heat death of the universe.” Entropy is just a bridge between two levels of reality.

The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong

Physicist Rhett Allain wants to retire the messy-bedroom explanation of entropy. Disorder, he writes in Wired, "doesn't mean messiness or chaos" — it counts the ways a system's par...

Friday Flashback: Professor Julius Sumner Miller

"How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls. I am Julius Sumner Miller, and physics is my business!"

Physicists Made 10,000 Particles Defy Newton’s Third Law for an Hour. Here’s How

With the right hack, physicists got a peek into unlikely phenomena.

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Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work

How a tiny little electronic switch sparked the computer revolution.

Welcome to the Quantum-Steampunk Laboratory

Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzNicole Yunger Halpern brings her quantum thermodynamics research to the public via analogies to a futuristic Victorian adventure.[Physics 19, 101] Publis...

This hack for freeing a trapped electrical cord has absolutely broken people’s brains

We cross now to the fascinating mathematical field of topology, or rubber-sheet geometry – the study of properties that remain constant under multi-dimensional changes to an object...

The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Solve the Fluid Equations

I generated a Kármán vortex street without solving a single fluid equation. Here's how the Lattice Boltzmann Method gets there instead, derived from first principles, implemented i...

The physics of novel computation: beyond bits and chips to spikes and spins

Sidney Perkowitz looks into alternative computing methods inspired by physics to improve computational efficiency and power The post The physics of novel computation: beyond bits a...

Tiny Particles Defy Action-Reaction Symmetry to Stay in Motion

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic particles that assemble, scatter, and move as though they were alive, active matter is challenging long-held ideas about how...

The Priors, Measured: Inversion-Battery v0.1

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The Physics and Nostalgia Behind One of Television’s Most Beloved Games

Plinko, a beloved game show staple since 1983, combines mathematics and entertainment through its Galton board-inspired mechanics. Its appeal lies in the suspense of randomness, ca...

Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"

New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.

Seven writers, four physicists, one room, lots of plushies

Robert P Crease attends a workshop bringing physicists and journalists together The post Seven writers, four physicists, one room, lots of plushies appeared first on Physics World.

When a child stirs cornstarch into water, the mixture turns solid under a sudden punch but liquid under a slow stir — th...

A kitchen physics trick—where cornstarch slurry hardens under impact then flows again—is teaching engineers how to stop bullets and shrapnel without traditional rigid armor. The po...

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A YouTuber rebuilt a mercury light bulb discovered in 1675

In 1675, the French astronomer Jean Picard noticed something strange while carrying his mercury barometer through a dark room: the mercury glowed as it sloshed around the bulb. Two...