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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. I don't want that post to leave the impression that quantum physics isn ...

The art of conversation may be dead, but you wouldn’t know it from the attention being paid to ChatGPT. It’s not a person with sparkling repartee, but a chatbot that accesses a terabyte-sized database ...

Stuff falls all the time. Maybe you’ve dropped a ball. Perhaps that cup of coffee slipped out of your hands. The mostly likely situation is that a cat decided to knock an object off a table—because ...

When you wander around the internet, sometimes you can find some crazy stuff. Check this out: It's an old account of a weird phenomena created by giant plastic sheets at 3M Corporation. In short, ...

The UK Institute of Physics has turned to young social-media stars to get more schoolchildren excited about the subject. The Institute of Physics (IOP) wants to inspire young people who’ve never ...

The popular image of science is not about objects in front of us but about galaxies far, far away and seeming miracles—sometimes destructive, sometimes not—here on Earth. Please continue to look to ...

All of it should be discussed, according to the theoretical high energy physicist from USC. That goes for everyone, even those of us who can’t tell a neutron from a neutrino. “People say ‘Ah, it’s not ...

Julien Bobroff is the author of "Mon grand mécano quantique" mentioned in the article. I have been popularising quantum physics, my area of research, for many years now. The general public finds the ...

Read stories about people with physics degrees from UC Davis by checking out physics professor Lloyd Knox’s blog, Degree Of Satisfaction. For quantitative information on physics careers, visit the ...

University of Richmond provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. There’s just something thrilling about traveling at high speeds. Throughout history people have always pushed themselves to ...