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According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

It’s not every day you get to bring the Earth to the brink of destruction, but that’s exactly what director Roland Emmerich set out to do in his latest film, Moonfall. Directed and co-written by ...

Kétévi Assamagan describes how US particle physicists are trying to make their field work for people of all genders, ethnicities and backgrounds. This year, thousands of particle physicists thrashed ...

Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes match ...