The backwards bike looks simple, but riding it goes against everything your brain has learned. Even with confidence and experience, the physics behind it refuses to cooperate. Every attempt feels like ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it's more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

Caltech scientists have developed a method that detects tiny, imperceptible movements at the surface of objects to reveal details about what lies beneath. By analyzing the physics of waves traveling ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle.

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

In a research project that has real implications for their regular laboratory work, a pair of physicists at Brown University ...

Consider the humble rechargeable battery: Many people start their day by unplugging their phone from a charger to check the ...

A newly derived “q-desic” equation suggests that quantum effects may subtly alter particle trajectories across the universe.

The physics behind shoe squeaks is surprisingly complex. Phil Roeder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0. As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the ...

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...