Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...
Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her route to becoming a nuclear safety engineer – a journey that includes job rejections, the charity sector and nuclear awards ...
More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...
Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits, and ...
Three years ago, in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the passage of an "ultra-energetic" cosmic neutrino was observed—the ...
Engineers have discovered an unexpected link between two very different realms of physics: the behavior of electrons in ...
Spread the loveThe world of nuclear physics is constantly evolving, with new findings that challenge long-held beliefs about atomic structure and behavior. Recently, a collaborative effort from an ...
Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...
My travel schedule has become much busier recently, so I’ve been on a lot of flights. This inspired me to share what I think is a helpful metaphor. Please bear with me. In the late 1600s, Isaac Newton ...
An analysis of world energy and resource consumption trends reveals that total growth is insufficient to forestall major problems, leading to a decline in per-capita energy supply, which is driving ...
Commercial software can’t keep pace with experimental precision when it comes to large-scale computer-algebra calculations in ...
A newly derived “q-desic” equation suggests that quantum effects may subtly alter particle trajectories across the universe.