As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet.

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Hidden from view by old willow trees, the cast-off tools of high-energy physics are strewn across 11 acres: rejected cables, tables with missing limbs, and computers that couldn t keep pace. Swallows ...

GPS accuracy relies on Einstein's relativity theories to correct satellite timing errors that would otherwise cause 6+ mile ...

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Particle physics is in some ways like peeling an onion; you can peel back each layer, going smaller and smaller, until you are studying the tiniest of particles. Interestingly, it’s these minuscule ...

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"My job is to get kids excited about science and to give them confidence." A community college professor in Virginia is doing all he can to make physics "phun" for his students. David Wright, Ph.D., ...