What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with which they ...

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How physics moves from wild ideas to actual experiments Science often accommodates audacious proposals. Matt von Hippel – Nov 25, 2024 4:00 AM | 28 ...

Doing physics is messy and being a physicist is even more complicated. Today, every physicist faces a complex reality of human and systemic factors when pursuing research: grant deadlines, peer ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly," Sun said. "My ...

The biggest challenges in physics and how this might affect society in the coming decades are captured in a new open access ebook from the European Physical Society.

For years, researchers have been studying the physics of crowds. Researchers think fluid dynamics could provide insights for how to make crowds safer.