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Students may soon be able to reach out and touch some of the theoretical concepts they are taught in their physics classes thanks to a novel idea. Students may soon be able to reach out and touch some ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new debate has recently emerged as to ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is a staple of sci-fi, hand-waving away multi-millennia journeys between stars. Such a technology would of course be incredibly handy to us in the real world, and while ...

“I got used to the idea that questions had answers.” Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation; By Summer Ash An active proponent of education, diversity and communication, Sylvester James Gates is ...

In 2008, Michael Ruck was frustrated. The inorganic chemist at Technical University Dresden was trying to figure out a way to build even smaller transistors than already existed, making nanowires of ...

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen, I congratulate the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics on its 50th anniversary. In his Nobel Lecture in December 1979, Abdus Salam said: ...

Steven Scott Gubser, a professor of physics at Princeton University and a highly accomplished scholar of string theory and black holes, died as a result of a rock-climbing accident on Saturday, Aug. 3 ...

Flux physics refers to continuous change in physical quantities, including energy transfer and dynamic equilibria. Flux is central to many areas of formal and Big-P physics, though intuitive ...