physics

Wood-based products can behave like mini-earthquakes.

Physicists are developing acoustical "phonons" for computers of the future.

When you squeeze them with a constant force, they can crumple at different rates.

Scientists used new theoretical models and high-speed movies of dice rolls to illustrate findings.

Physicists and movement experts take a close look at high heels.

LED lasers, quantum weirdness, graphene, and carbon nanotubes top poll of physicists.

A new book attempts to explain string theory to the masses.

A well-known effect in breakfast cereal helps scientists understand the universe.

Cooling down antimatter to a few degrees above absolute zero

The giant subterranean atom smasher in Switzerland sets a new record energy level.

The era of great private industry when laboratories conducted long-term research in the physical sciences faded in the 1980s.