There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Mothers lose out on more than £65,000 in earnings in the five years after having their first child, new figures show. By the time her child is five, a woman's monthly income is down by a whopping ...

Many layers: knife sharpness and cutting technique greatly affect the speed of droplets that are created when cutting an onion. (Courtesy: Zixuan Wu and Sunghwan “Sunny” Jung at Cornell University) ...

Taking flight: a parasitic roundworm prepares to jump on its host (courtesy: Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez) Researchers in the US have discovered that a tiny jumping worm uses static electricity to ...

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