The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

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From the biathlon to the slopestyle to the giant slalom, raising a ski above your head after crossing the finish line is the triumphant Olympic skier's standard celebration. But why do the skis of the ...

Over three years ago, we approached Ates Games with the idea of creating a game centred around controlling a rolling ball that moves through levels ...

During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through ...

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Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows that light’s polarization and entanglement obey a simple identity – written ...

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Yuqing Lin is electrified by physics. "In introductory physics, we learn about how electrons would move and these very simple laws that explain the behaviors of electrons and materials," said Lin, a ...

A party’s on at Synergy, but the partygoers aren’t any ordinary attendees. In fact, most of them are physics majors. This “phrave,” or physics rave, was organized by the Stanford University Physics ...

A research paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive. This builds on an existing model that requires negative energy—an impossibility. The new model is exciting, but warp speed ...