Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful: he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains that intuition in physics can be a social construct, one that is culturally embedded about who is normal and what is intuitive Fitting in The pressure to conform to ...

Open-source software has been critical to the famous image of a black hole – but also for many other areas of physics besides Picture of success: The importance of open-source software to physics.

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 ...

I wanted to let you know how physics has helped me throughout my career. I’ve written below what is basically an historical account of what I’ve done since graduating and the items that I needed to ...