As the self-proclaimed About Physics Thermodynamics Month draws to a close, we present an article covering the laws of thermodynamics. Check out this and the other major articles that ... Read More

Nicola Pugno, a professor and physicist at the Italian Politecnico di Torino, has just published a research paper suggesting that it should be possible to use nanotubes to mimic the ... Read More

Sept. 1, 1804 - German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovers Juno, one of largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. Aug. 29, 1831 - By some sources, this is the birthday of ... Read More

Last week, we discussed a challenge to established theories on dark matter, based on new findings where a massive collision of galactic clusters were not behaving as expected. Now, ... Read More

Now that we have the Thermodynamics Overview, I've provided some rather extensive details on heat transfer, including some of the more common and useful thermodynamic processes. Together with our previous material ... Read More

A bit late this week, but here it is: Aug. 25, 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his improved version of the Dutch invention, the telescope, to Venetian lawmakers for the first ... Read More

Astrophysicists and cosmologists are currently on a major hunt to discover the secrets of the elusive theoretical entity known as dark matter. The predictions are that dark matter is a substance ... Read More

As Thermodynamics Month continues here at About Physics, I've been focusing a bit of time on expanding content related to the states of matter, including information on phase transitions & ... Read More

Aug. 19, 1662 - French mathematician, philosopher, & physicist Blaise Pascal dies. Pascal was best known for his mathematical work, especially the formation of Pascal's Triangle (although he was ... Read More

The 2007 Dirac medal was awarded to John Iliopoulos & Luciano Maiani, who in 1970 created the "GIM mechanism" to explain the electroweak interaction in quantum physics (along with Sheldon ... Read More

One of the side-effects of Einstein's theory of relativity is that when viewing distant space, you are actually looking at younger galaxies. Astronomers doing so have now found five ... Read More

Aug. 12, 1887 - Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrodinger is born. Schrodinger received the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics (along with Paul Dirac - see below) for his contributions to ... Read More

As I sit here in the Midwestern heat of summer, it strikes me that the Thermodynamics of About Physics is a bit slim on material ... so, it gives me ... Read More

Both the Senate and the House have voted in support of the America COMPETES Act. The bill now proceeds to President Bush for authorization or veto, though he has ... Read More