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Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.

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By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

Time-varying systems, materials with properties that change over time, have opened new possibilities for the experimental ...

The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

A headline that caught our eye claims two inventors have designed massive airbags they say could make plane crashes ...

The polar regions of the Sun remain among the least-explored territories in solar physics, yet they play a crucial role in ...

Commercial air travel is already the safest way to move across the planet. However, in the extremely unlikely event that an ...

Physics has solved many mysteries yet three problems remain unsolved. This film reveals the questions that continue to perplex scientists.