The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

An experiment with a carbon material in a magnetic field has revealed a novel way for electrons to move, which doesn't fully ...

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Relating Noether’s theorem to introductory concepts like Newton’s laws can give students an early appreciation of its impact.

How quantum physics offers a possible path to a non-chemical battery. How a team fabricated such a battery. The results of ...

On Friday, March 20th, the Fitzgerald Lecture Theatre played host to the launch of physicist and poet Prof Iggy McGovern’s ...

The premise of “Rheology” is simultaneously simple and preposterous: A theater practitioner asks his mother to enact her own ...

This semester I am teaching philosophy of science to science educators. The class consists mostly of people who have studied ...

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Denison University professor Steve Olmschenk shares his lifelong passion for science, quantum physics and teaching students.

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, and global partners used the Gemini laser to "compress ...

A new theoretical study finds shorter laser pulses achieve higher quantum efficiency for photoemission from a solid surface ...