A density column is created with honey, corn syrup, maple syrup, skim milk, dish soap, olive oil, and denatured alcohol. A colorful and fun science project! Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for ...

Understand the energy density of electric and magnetic fields by exploring how energy is stored and distributed in electromagnetic fields. This video explains the underlying physics, key equations, ...

A team of physicists from the University of Ottawa have developed a new theoretical model that shines new light on how ...

High energy density (HED) physics has critical applications in areas such as inertial confinement fusion and the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Congress has requested that the ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

Recently, ‘Liquid crystal display (LCD) vs. organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display: who wins?’ has become a topic of heated debate. In this review, we perform a systematic and comparative study ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

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Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

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The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.