A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Center of New Technologies, ...

Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...

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Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

“In the future, we’ll be generating a significant fraction of our electricity from harnessing the waves!” People have been saying this for decades, and wave-generated electricity is not a significant ...

In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...

It’s a long-running joke in the physicsworld.com newsroom that physicists see power laws everywhere. Indeed, a quick scan of the arXiv preprint server reveals physics papers that apply power-law ...

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Math may have many uses, but dodging traffic tickets isn't one of them. A San Diego court commissioner said the difference between liner and angular velocity had nothing to do with her dismissing a ...