Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...

On the morning of June 28, 1914, a Bosnian Serb student named Gavrilo Princip stood outside Moritz Schiller’s delicatessen near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo. Sometime after 10:45 A.M., a motorcade ...

Two leading scientists discuss the future of their field. Credit...Ariel Davis Supported by By Dennis Overbye The future belongs to those who prepare for it, as scientists who petition federal ...

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With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said. By Derrick Bryson ...

Philip Ball argues that “free will” is not ruled out by physics – because it doesn’t stem from physics in the first place Wrong way If physics can disprove free will, then it must override everything ...

Computational physics jobs involve calculations and formulas. It combines physics, computer science and applied mathematics in order to provide scientific solutions to realistic and often complex ...

The UK Institute of Physics has turned to young social-media stars to get more schoolchildren excited about the subject. The Institute of Physics (IOP) wants to inspire young people who’ve never ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...