This summer has been hot—one of the hottest on record—and it's probably just going to keep getting hotter. I feel like we are getting to the point where air-conditioning isn't just something nice to ...

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Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Experiments that probe the exotic behaviour of matter at ultralow temperatures depend on the latest cryogenics technology. This special collection explores the tools and techniques used at cryogenic ...

When people build dams—giant walls that hold back entire lakes and rivers—they have to build an overflow channel called a spillway, a mitigation against flooding. But the really cool physics of this ...

Indie developer and publisher Lockpickle announced they will be releasing Robotry! for PC via Steam in a couple of weeks. The game is a super chaotic physics-based puzzler in which you will be ...

Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter that is not visible to us, and is thought to make up about 27 percent of matter in the universe, according to NASA. Astrophysicists have long thought that ...

They say that a watched pot never boils. I'm not exactly sure who "they" but they are most certainly wrong. Fill up a pot with water. Put it on the stove. Turn the stove on. Watch it. It will ...

Here’s a random bit of trivia for you: physics is a really tough field of science that most students usually shy away from when choosing majors. Becoming a physical scientist—or any sort of scientist, ...

Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of JILA, an interdisciplinary research centre in Boulder, Colorado, have won this year's Nobel ...