A while back, Stephen Hawking and his daughter, Lucy, released a children's book that teaches scientific concepts to young readers: George's Secret Key to the Universe. The book covers concepts ... Read More

Physicists have just created a variation of a black hole which, instead of trapping photons (particles of light), traps phonons (particles of sound). Yes, waves of sound vibrations in matter ... Read More

Earlier this month, there was a great blog post over at Physicsworld.com, "The power of robotics," in which Robert P. Crease (philosophy professor at Stony Brook University) discusses his son's ... Read More

In physics, time travel is technically allowed by the theory of relativity. The results that demonstrate time travel are called closed timelike curves (or CTC), which are paths that begin ... Read More

A few weeks ago, I mentioned a new warp drive possibility based on string theory, a variant of the Alcubierre drive. A new set of calculations performed by a team ... Read More

Over at the Scienceray blog, they've posted The Top Five Laws of Physics That Have So Impacted Humanity: Principle of Mass-Energy Equivalence - E = mc2 (see our article on special ... Read More

This week New York City is home to the World Science Festival, a celebration of scientific achievement throughout the city. There are some spectacular events planned for this week, starting ... Read More

In the early years of quantum physics, there was a heated debate over the role of consciousness. Many aspects of quantum physics appear, at least with certain forms of analysis, ... Read More

Discover magazine is putting together an Educator's Guide, planned to start this fall, which will provide a forum for science educators to discover science content, share lesson plans/experiments/quizzes, and communicate ... Read More

Quantum physics continually challenges our common sense notions about reality, and attempts to understand what is really going on with the quantum realm have transfixed physicists since it's early days ... Read More