One of the most often quoted, yet least understood, tenets of physics is the uncertainty principle. Formulated by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the rule states that the more precisely ...

Revolutions in science don’t come that often, but the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres) published in 1543 certainly caused one. The work by Nicolas ...

The constancy of the speed of light is a pillar of modern physics, but questions persist about its absolute universality.

Quantum particles are not really just particles…they are also waves. The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in ...

It’s a fundamental principle of physics that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same charge repel. But now, scientists at the University of Oxford have found that ...

An elegant new equation identifies the surprisingly orderly, mathematical way in which things break, shatter, and fall apart.

Part of this statistical analysis is bound by the kinematics of the system; basically, what kind of event leads to the ...

THERE are several parts of the science of physics which appear very simple when expounded briefly in elementary text-books, but nevertheless present great difficulties when examined more carefully. A ...

Physicists demonstrate a correlation between the behavior of collective animal systems and a so-called 'critical point'. Current experiments support the controversial hypothesis that a well-known ...

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Ask DALL·E 2, an image generation system created by OpenAI, to paint a picture of “goldfish slurping Coca-Cola on a beach,” and it will spit out surreal images of exactly that. The program would have ...