In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

At first glance, physics and food science appear to belong to different worlds. Physics is often seen as abstract, mathematical and distant from daily life, while food science feels immediate, ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

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Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

You might feel like the days and weeks are slipping by. Here is how one psychologist says you can shift your experience of ...

The Austrian Association of Science and Education Journalists named quantum physicist Francesca Ferlaino Scientist of the ...

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A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

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Physicists are quietly rolling out a new generation of simulation codes that promise to do more than crunch numbers. By ...