This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space? Other ...

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance between them – the inverse square law. However, as Most ...

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At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow.

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The prospective candidates of the GATE 2026 Physics (PH) exam must familiarise themselves with the GATE Physics syllabus. The ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists believed that ice becomes slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface. New research from Saarland University overturns this idea. For more than a ...