Physics

AIP’s oral history collection is a rich resource for anyone studying the history of physics. The collection, which started in the 1960s, is comprised of audio recordings detailing physicists’ academic and scientific careers. Most of our oral histories have accompanying …

For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid. You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it: Optical light illuminates a material’s …

📖Read Time: 18 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: tidal, tides, bulge, moon, earth Overview That there is no tidal bulge is the key premise of this article. Upper-level oceanography undergraduates and above know this. Yet the …

My husband and I visited the Library of Congress on the final day of winter break this year. In a corner, we found a facsimile of a hand-drawn map: the world as viewed by sixteenth-century Europeans. North America looked like …

Our universe is a very strange place, but a new dark matter simulation seems to suggest that we live in a particularly strange area in it. According to a new paper published by a group of astrophysicists, simulations seem to …

Earth, air, fire, water: the growing links between climate change and geophysical hazards – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Source link

Branching cracks wend through the slopes of Utah in this photograph by Matt Payne. It may seem strange to feature something so dry on a blog about fluid dynamics, but everything seen here depends as much on air and water …

Like millions of people, I couldn’t stop myself from spending a fair amount of time recently doing searches here, where one can read endless emails, texts, etc. showing in detail what Jeffrey Epstein was up to over many years. I …

Of the more than 4,500 stars known to have planets, one puzzling statistic stands out. Even though nearly all stars are expected to have planets and most stars form in pairs, planets that orbit both stars in a pair are …

Lost Women of Science Updates Wikipedia Lost Women of Science On February 11, 2026—the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum’s Discoverability Lab and Lost Women of Science are hosting a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: …