Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), a remarkable manifestation of quantum mechanics in systems with many particles, has over the past century reshaped our understanding of the fundamental phases of ...

“Boston Blue” opens on an unassuming evening in the New England city. Two 20-something guys, Sean and his best friend Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner), are out on the town. As the pair chat up a couple ...

Fluid dynamics is the study of the motion of liquids, gases and plasmas. Flow is dependent on the intrinsic properties of the matter itself, such as compressibility, viscosity and density. Example ...

We study the pass-through of corporate taxes into consumer prices, leveraging 1,058 municipal tax rate changes affecting 4,754 German firms. A 1 p.p. increase in a producer’s tax rate raises retail ...

Taking flight: a parasitic roundworm prepares to jump on its host (courtesy: Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez) Researchers in the US have discovered that a tiny jumping worm uses static electricity to ...

Earlier this year I met the Massachusetts-based steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum at the Global Physics Summit of the American Physical Society. He was exhibiting a beautiful sculpture of a “quantum ...

Researchers have long debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, moved their huge human-faced moai statues — which can weigh dozens of tons, on average — centuries ago ...