Tagged With Physics

Physicist breaks down the science of 11 iconic DC movie scenes

Ju Shardlow, Brett Jordan

Physicists made a superconductor that works at room temperature. It could one day give rise to high-speed floating trains.

Susie Neilson

Time travel is theoretically possible, new calculations show. But that doesn't mean you could change the past.

Susie Neilson

A collision in space revealed a black hole that physicists thought could never exist. The observatory that detected it cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe.

Dave Mosher

The Beirut explosion created a huge mushroom cloud and visible blast wave, but nuclear-weapons experts say it wasn't an atomic bomb. Here's why.

Dave Mosher

An underground dark-matter experiment may have stumbled on the 'holy grail': a new particle that could upend the laws of physics

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Astronauts on the space station are helping to forge a bizarre 5th state of matter that disappears in seconds on Earth

Aylin Woodward

Legendary mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has died at the age of 96

Bani Sapra

An incredible animation by a planetary scientist shows how fast each planet spins by putting them in one giant globe

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

The most awe-inspiring scientific discoveries of the 2010s include the first image of a black hole, an exoplanet with water, and a hidden continent

Aylin Woodward

There is no permanent dark side of the moon, and this simple animation by a former NASA scientist explains why

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Coin flips aren't actually random. An app called Universe Splitter is, though — here's how it works.

Aylin Woodward

The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning animation shows how far it has gone.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

The first day of fall has arrived. Here's how the equinox marks the changing of seasons.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Dave Mosher, Shayanne Gal

Yes, a physicist once lit his cigarette with a nuclear-bomb explosion. Here's how it worked.

Dave Mosher

How NASCAR's banked turns help cars go faster

Christian Nguyen, Ben Nigh

A 'spooky' effect of physics that Einstein couldn't believe has been photographed for the first time

Dave Mosher

Here's what would happen if you tried to dig to China

Gina Echevarria, Benji Jones

A professional drifter explains the physics behind drifting

Christian Nguyen