Special relativity is rarely spoken in the same breath as biology. But relativistic effects dominate the generation of singlet oxygen which causes a potent form of biological damage. Nature has evo…| Galileo Unbound
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis turned up quantum effects in an electric circuit. This 1980s find underlies today’s quantum computers.| Science News Explores
When you're the size of a grain of sand, flying through air is like swimming through a syrup. Bristled wings help the tiniest insects manage this.| Science News Explores
Researchers have unveiled a new technique for detecting gravitational waves, advancing the precision limits of current instrumentation.| The Debrief
An astrophysicist proposes a new model of the universe without dark matter and energy, but is his radical idea based in fact?| The Debrief
New experiments demonstrate how to detect hidden objects like submarines or buried treasure using the power of acoustical physics.| The Debrief
Closing in on the nature of dark matter, experiments conducted in an underground cavern help resolve one of the leading candidates.| The Debrief
Interpolating anomalies in the simple gridder to produce globally complete fields.| Diagram Monkey
In which I go through the steps of writing a simple gridder for in situ sea surface temperature data.| Diagram Monkey
I’m trying to lose weight. I was so happy when I saw my local pastry shop sold negative-mass doughnuts! But what happened next really freaked me out. Hear the tale here: This is the second of my Edinburgh Explorations videos. See if you can spot the dumb mistake at 14:25. In this video, I examine … … Continue reading →| Azimuth
I’ve been studying the physics of negative mass. Basically it doesn’t exist. But physicists are have run into a serious problem. They think they can use astronomical measurements to put…| Azimuth
Researchers developed a compact detector for milli-Hertz gravitational waves, enabling new astrophysical discoveries before upcoming space missions.| Scientific Inquirer
Extra dimensions at the microscale could be tested experimentally within 3-5 years. The post Micron-sized hidden dimensions could solve two of physics’ deepest puzzles appeared first on Advanced Science News.| Advanced Science News
For many students, an amusement park trip is more than just a reward at the end of a school year—it can be the real-world experience...| Vernier
My latest book is being published next week in the United States, Britain, Australia by Scribe and in New Zealand by Oratia. Ernest Rutherford and the birth of modern physics explores the way our c…| Matthew Wright
Most people are familiar with energy, both in its everyday sense as a resource used for things like heating and powering electrical equipment, and – if they were paying attention in school – as a fundamental property of the physical world that can be converted from one form into another, but never created or destroyed. Entropy, the subject of this book, is a similar but much less well known fundamental physical property. As James Binney says in the first chapter, ‘most people without a ...| Popular Science Books
Ten years after it first appeared, we have an anniversary hardback edition of Carlo Rovelli's bestseller. It's probably the best-known popular science title since A Brief History of Time - probably more readable, but with far less content. As mentioned in my review below from 2015, it's very much a tasting menu: I'm afraid I can't agree with the Guardian's assertion, but I hope it has led readers on to some high quality popular science.| Popular Science Books
The post The Physics of Flight: A Homeschool Guide to Inspiring Future Aviators appeared first on Journey Homeschool Academy.| Journey Homeschool Academy
The post Music Meets STEM: Teaching Sound and Acoustics in Your Homeschool appeared first on Journey Homeschool Academy.| Journey Homeschool Academy
The post The Chemistry of Art: Understanding Color, Pigments, and Reactions appeared first on Journey Homeschool Academy.| Journey Homeschool Academy
The northern lights are one of the most spectacular displays in nature, and they could be especially intense during the nights around the equinox.| Sciencing: Daily content for curious minds
The technology is extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). And one of the most important points I want to leave you with is that the origins of EUV are not found in Silicon Valley startups or corporate boardrooms but in California’s national laboratories, where government-funded science made the impossible possible.| California Curated
Exploring the strange intersection of science, conspiracy, and military secrecy in the decades-long quest for anti-gravity propulsion.| Freethink
A Möbius strip is a loop with one side and one edge. It's made by twisting a strip of paper 180 degrees and taping the ends together. There's no obvious difference between inside and outside. If you draw a line around the centre of the paper, it'll cross over to the other side, and you'll […] The post The Impossible Loop - Make a Double Möbius Strip appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
Chemists have spotted tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?| Science News Explores
The atoms that make us up couldn’t be shrunk or smashed closer together — at least, not without catastrophic consequences.| Science News Explores
One of the major things that the mightily impressive James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to reveal has now potentially been revealed. Groundbreaking new research from the University of St. Andrews has identified signs of a possible atmosphere surrounding an Earth-sized exoplanet located 40 light years away, raising excitement that habitable conditions beyond our solar […] The post James Webb Space Telescope’s First Look at an Atmosphere on Habitable Zone Exoplanet appeared first on Go...| Good News Network
Scientists reveal unprecedented ability to "side-step" the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by simultaneously measuring location and momentum| The Debrief
Cataclysmic events, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, may be triggered by supercritical fluids, according to researchers.| The Debrief
I just came across an article on Peter Putnam, allegedly a 20th century physicist who invented something like reinforcement learning (though the details are unclear) and was forgotten until a recent effort to dig into his cryptic writings. The whole thing doesn't seem plausible at all, since Putnam was supposed to have, among other things, donated $40M made by investments to Nature Conservancy or corresponded with Einstein and Wheeler, and yet he has left no trace other than this one article ...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Disclaimer: the ideas and opinions presented below are reflective of the author and may or may not be shared by other members of the Society of Friends of Epicurus.| Society of Friends of Epicurus
In December 1924, Wolfgang Pauli introduced a crucial quantum number, leading to the formulation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle and connecting atomic models to the periodic table’s structure.| Galileo Unbound
In the early years of physics research, a major discovery could be made with neither funding nor labspace ... conjured out of thin air by curiosity, tenacity, and a love of physics.| Galileo Unbound
The Virial Theorem is a top physics principle. This post highlights its importance as a bridge between classical mechanics, thermodynamics, and quantum physics. It also touches on Rudolph Clausius’s foundational contributions, such as defining entropy and his work on thermodynamics laws.| Galileo Unbound
One hundred years ago, in July of 1924, a brilliant Indian physicist changed the way that scientists count.| Galileo Unbound
Orbital data reveals that rocks transforming deep inside the Earth may be responsible for changes to our planet’s gravitational field.| The Debrief
[Epistemic Status: Speculating on a key implementation detail within the paradigm of the Brain as a Non-Linear Optical Computer (BaaNLOC) – specifically, how the optical function of beam splitting could be used to compose the contents of a conscious simulation scene with principles of cel animation and holography. In particular, this may explain both how […]| Qualia Computing
Magnets are always fun when used in science experiments and demonstrations. They are fairly inexpensive to buy and can be used in lots of creative ways. We still play with our magnet cars years after making them! This simple dancing magnet activity uses a basic frame to hold a magnet in place while other magnets […] The post Dancing Magnet Demonstration appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
Singular Learning Theory’s eldest child in practice\| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Discover simple preschool science experiments perfect for home or classrooms. Low-prep, hands-on activities with easy supplies.| Little Bins for Little Hands
When I was teaching AP Physics C, I assumed rotational motion would be easy for my students. These were strong math and science learners—most of...| Vernier
The QROCODILE experiment sets world-leading limits on light dark matter, marking a breakthrough in the search for the unseen.| The Debrief
Japanese scientists have identified a novel method of understanding the long-elusive W state of quantum entanglement.| The Debrief
One of the easiest ways to make science accessible is to tie it to everyday life - and this is something Michael Banks does well in his exploration of physical goings on from breakfast to bedtime. Each of twelve chapters focuses on an aspect of our non-working/sleeping time. We begin with the morning coffee, take on the physics of breakfast food and so on, travelling through the day to end up in front of the TV show or film. I was impressed by just how much Banks could get from the simple (o...| Popular Science Books
It's hard to believe that there could be anything more that could usefully be written about Einstein - and then this impressive little book comes along. ('Little' is not a negative here - I love short books that cram a lot in, and this one delivers impressively.) Rather than present us with the classic scientific biography, Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael Gordin take six different cuts through Einstein's life and work, examining the process that produced his views and beliefs.After a prolog...| Popular Science Books
The post What Physics Has Discovered in 2025 (And Why It Matters for Students) appeared first on Journey Homeschool Academy.| Journey Homeschool Academy
Give your teen a rigorous, Christ-centered science education with Discover Physics. This Christian homeschool physics course makes high school science engaging, doable, and faith-integrated.| Journey Homeschool Academy
Physics major Sebastian Lucero, ’25, spent his first two years of college at the University of Connecticut but he transferred to Southern as a junior seeking more hands-on experience. “The UConn department is much bigger, so it feels a lot more impersonal,” he says. “That didn’t align well with the way I learn. At Southern, […]| News at Southern
The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.| Futurism
Embrace a love of STEM by practicing STEM skills through this Mini Golf STEM project which has kids building putters and holes for the win!| STEAM Powered Family
Their results pave the way for developing advanced electronic devices that rely on nonmagnetic materials. For the first time, researchers in Japan have detected a giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in a material that is not magnetic. The breakthrough was made using high-quality thin films of Cd3As| SciTechDaily
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.| The MIT Press Reader
Why does x = tan θ substitution work?| Toby Lam’s Blog
Dr. Gerald Schroeder published an article in Aish.com about the age of the Universe and the Jewish bible: So the only data I use as far as Biblical commentary goes is ancient commentary. That m...| Skeptics Stack Exchange
Diamonds aren’t just beautiful sparkly rocks or a girl’s best friend; they’re also the hardest material on Earth. Formed when planetary interior forces exert immense pressure on carbon atoms, they compress into a crystal structure so strong that only another … Continue reading → The post Hard target appeared first on ASCR Discovery.| ASCR Discovery
Have you ever wanted to create your very own animation? One way to do this is with a simple flipbook. An animation flip book is a series of pictures arranged in a flip book that change slightly from one page to the next. When you flip through the book, the images appear to move, creating […] The post Create You Own Flipbook - FREE Animation Template appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
The article discusses the integration of vocational discernment into a physics course at Pacific Lutheran University, inspired by a faculty workshop. Students engage in activities to explore their values and career paths alongside academic learning. The author emphasizes the importance of considering your cultural commute and the broader implications of vocational choices on your community of origin.| vocation matters
This first ran on August 17, 2022. Three years later, August 20, 2025, same. Except this year we also have infrastructure, (it’s like measles: you get it, you suffer, it goes away) which we have often enough that I know code for the street markings: gas is yellow, electric is red, sewer is green, water is blue. This time it’s blue and we’re waiting for the city DPW to get its leisurely butt out here and turn off our water and dig up the street just in time for the afternoon Armageddo...| The Last Word On Nothing
There is something unforgettable about the Wedge and the way its waves crash with such raw force. Sometimes they detonate just offshore, sending water skyrocketing into the air; other times they slam thunderously against the sand, eliciting groans and whoops from bystanders.| California Curated
The first scientific paper I published was submitted to Physical Review B , the world's leading scientific journal in condensed matter phy...| go-to-hellman.blogspot.com
My watch has a “Noise” app: it shows , for decibels. My amp has a volume knob, which also shows decibels, although.. negative ones, this time. And finally, my video editing software has a ton of me...| fasterthanli.me
Making an air pressure powered drinks dispenser is easier than it looks, and a fantastic hands-on air pressure demonstration. What is air pressure? Air and its particles are crashing into us all the time. What we call air pressure is the force of these particles hitting a surface. When you suck a straw you reduce […] The post Air Pressure Demonstration - DIY Drinks Dispenser appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
This activity uses Skittles to demonstrate radioactive decay. The rate of decay depends on the isotope of the element and is referred to as the half-life. Radioactive decay is a random process. To understand the concept of a half-life, we're going to pretend Skittles are radioactive atoms. Skittles that land with the S upwards are […] The post Skittles Half Life Demonstration appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
A singing balloon experiment is a great way to learn how sound works. If you put a small coin inside a balloon and spin it, the coin spins around the balloon, making the balloon vibrate very quickly. Objects that vibrate quickly make a high pitched sound. As the coin slows down, the pitch of the […] The post Singing Balloon Experiment appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
You've probably seen lightning flash across the sky, but do you know why and how it happens? This simple science activity teaches how lightning forms and how to make a small spark using static electricity. What is lightning? Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere. It happens when electricity is discharged between […] The post Make Lightning with a Balloon and Spoon appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
There are lots of great air pressure demonstrations around, but a leaky water bottle is one of the simplest. It looks impressive and costs almost nothing. Air is made up of several different gases. Air pressure is caused by gravity pulling air molecules towards Earth. We don't really notice air pressure as it's balanced inside […] The post Leaky bottle Air Pressure Demonstration appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
A stacked ball drop demonstration is a brilliant way to demonstrate momentum transfer between objects. The compression of the bigger two balls bounces the smallest ball much higher than it would normally bounce. You'll need A basketball A tennis ball or small basketball/football Table tennis ball or golf ball Stacked Three Ball Drop Instructions Hold […] The post Stacked Three Ball Drop STEM Challenge appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
If you were to drop a table tennis ball and a basketball, which do you think would hit the ground first? This sporty science activity is an eye-opening demonstration with lots of opportunities for learning and exploration. Sporty Science Ball Drop Investigation You'll need 4 different balls - for example, table tennis ball, golf ball, […] The post Ball Drop Gravity Race appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
The colour of an object is the colour it reflects, while other colours are absorbed. White reflects all the colours of the spectrum, while black absorbs all the colours, reflecting very little back. Visible white light from the sun consists of seven colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. When white light hits […] The post Does colour affect temperature? appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids.| Science Experiments for Kids
Image by M W from Pixabay Intending to make a marine robot that will operate under the ocean? Time to start learning, not just engineering and computing, but the physics of marine biology! And, it …| cs4fn
Hello all ! I am so thrilled to announce that my second book The Physics of Espresso is finally out ! This one took a while longer than I expected, and you’ll understand why when you get your…| Coffee ad Astra
[Epistemic Status: playful, informal travel log] How I spent the 11 hour flight from London to San Francisco just now (apparently flying over Iceland and Greenland, if the map on the little screen …| Qualia Computing
Making quantum anomalies accessible to experimentalists could redefine next-generation technologies and device engineering.| Advanced Science News
Over the past few years, I have given several lectures about quantum computation, presenting my argument for why quantum computing—and even significant early milestones toward it—are fundamentally …| Combinatorics and more
Last spring break, I came back to school ready to run my usual momentum lab, the classic egg drop, only to be met with an... The post An Egg Drop Alternative: A Force to Reckon With appeared first on Vernier.| Vernier
The first week of school is a great time to lean into student curiosity, help everyone get comfortable with your lab routines and tools, and... The post 3 Hands-On, Low-Prep Sensor Activities to Start the School Year appeared first on Vernier.| Vernier
When a book is a classic of the field it can be easy to forget to review it. Richard Feynman's 1985 QED is one of the best-thumbed books on my shelves, and still in print - so it seemed sensible to cover it. Because Feynman has a number of books with his name on the cover from his remarkable anecdotes in Surely You are Joking Mister Feynman? to the anything-but-popular-science Red Book (The Feynman Lectures on Physics), it can be a surprise to realise that he never wrote a book per se. What ...| Popular Science Books
Neutrinos are teeny, tiny, nearly massless particles that travel at near lightspeeds. Born from violent astrophysical events like exploding stars and gamma ray bursts, they are fantastically abundant in the universe, and can move as easily through lead as we move through air. But they are notoriously difficult to pin down. "Neutrinos are really pretty strange particles when you get down to it," says John Conway, a professor of physics at University of California, Davis.| PBS News
New physics study derives universal formula for quantum entanglement in conformal field theories, laying groundwork for advances in quantum computing and fundamental physics.| Study Finds
In Part 10 we saw that, loosely speaking, the theory of a hydrogen atom is equivalent to the theory of a massless left-handed spin-½ particle in the Einstein universe—a static universe where space is a 3-sphere. Today we’ll ‘second quantize’ both of these equivalent theories and get new theories that again are equivalent. ‘Second quantization’ […]| Azimuth
The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. Today we’ll see a universe in an atom! We’ll see that states of the hydrogen atom correspond to states of a massless spin-½ particle in the Einstein universe—a closed, static universe where space is a 3-sphere. The rotational symmetries of […]| Azimuth
Today I want to make a little digression into the quaternions. We won’t need this for anything later—it’s just for fun. But it’s quite beautiful. We saw in Part 8 that if we take the spin of the electron into account, we can think of bound states of the hydrogen atom as spinor-valued functions on […]| Azimuth
Now comes the really new stuff. I want to explain how the hydrogen atom is in a certain sense equivalent to a massless spin-½ particle in the ‘Einstein universe’. This is the universe Einstein believed in before Hubble said the universe was expanding! It has a 3-sphere for space, and this sphere stays the same […]| Azimuth
I’ve explained a cool way to treat bound states of the hydrogen atom as wavefunctions on a sphere in 4-dimensional space. But so far I’ve been neglecting the electron’s spin. Now let’s throw that in too! This will wind up leading us in some surprising directions. So far I’ve just been reviewing known ideas, but […]| Azimuth
To start 2025, I'm going big. I'm consolidating the biggest mysteries of the universe into a blog post! These five top biggest mysteries in science remain unanswered science questions to date.| Susan Berk Koch
How to harness the power of the sun? That's a big endeavor! Scientists have been on a quest to harness the power of the sun for almost 100 years. Why? Because the sun's power is the best renewable energy source for the future.| Susan Berk Koch
What are wearable robots? Why would anyone want to wear a robot, anyway? WEARABLE ROBOTS Is Louie wearing a wearable robot or is the robot wearing Louie? I CAN OPEN THE FRIDGE WITH THESE HANDS! A wearable robot is a system that combines electrics & mechanical engineering and is designed around the shape and function ... Read more| Susan Berk Koch
Instead of accepting Galileo’s theory of heliocentrism, Romans punished him for it. What if things had been different?| Fancy Comma, LLC
There are plenty of times where my brain doesn’t realise that my foot is on a collision course with a piece of forniture, but most time even I can tell if I am going to hit someone walking in the opposite direction. How does that work I wonder? Certainly our brains do not start computing […]| ReachableCode
This post is a follow up on my general questions on AI post, and expands on ideas I published here and here in the ancient times. Every time one of the labs releases an updated model I give it a th…| Casey Handmer's blog
Science proceeds through research communities whose participants share important and often distinctive features of thought and method. This is one of the key insights of the “historical turn” in the philosophy of science initiated in the 1970s (link, link), and it underlies much work within the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. But what … Continue reading "Ethnography of high-energy physics"| Understanding Society
According to (what I think is) the right theory of intrinsic probability, there are three primary criteria which determine the prior of any given hypothesis:Modesty: How little a hypothesis says about the world. | Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
More people ought to read J.L. Schellenberg's excellent book Monotheism and the Rise of Science (2020), published by Cambridge University Press. In it, Schellenberg notes that there is "considerable support" for the claim that monotheism "contributed to science's early rise" (p. 4). He writes that "Monotheism and science... were not enemies at all but rather friends" (p. 47). He further notes that such a relationship might well reemerge, writing:When the total story of science’s relationshi...| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
Whether it’s through science fiction novels, engaging literary nonfiction, or comics, educators are finding creative ways to bring literacy into STEM learning. These approaches echo... The post Stories That Stick: Ideas for Integrating Science and Language Arts appeared first on Vernier.| Vernier
0:00:00.5: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. In the last AMA, the last Ask Me Anything episode, we touched on an issue that has talked about a lot in the set of online discourse involving people who care about physics and people who care about science, which is the rate of progress in physics. Are we making progress as fast as we should or in science more generally? Personally, I think that in science more generally, or even in physics, outside fun...| Sean Carroll
My training and background as a physicist is largely in the field of so-called classical optics: the study of the wave properties of light. Lately, however, I’ve been planning more investigat…| Skulls in the Stars
Learn how to make quick and easy confetti cannon projects with your students with two simple designs. Compare the results to find the best!| STEAM Powered Family
In this post, I talk about ways in which I have recently improved my puck preparation for espresso.| Coffee ad Astra
I come back to my last experiment and explore whether the difference in gravimetric vs volumetric flow could be due to changing shot TDS.| Coffee ad Astra
What’s the action of a simple harmonic oscillator? And how does this change depending upon the path? Some mates of mine and I worked through this recently. This is my write-up of that calculation.| P.T.C.
