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Physicists Say They May Have Found a Powerful Glitch in the Universe
Futurism via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA team of researchers has stumbled upon a mysterious "cosmic glitch" in gravity, which could...
Math degrees are becoming less accessible—and this is a problem for business, government and...
Phys.org· 2 hours agoThere's been a 50% drop in numbers of math students at the lowest tariff universities over the five...
Why Morro Bay’s proposed battery plant is in our current — and future — best interest | Opinion
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoI was fortunate to tour the plant with students from the Cal Poly Women in Physics club in 2016, and...
Inside the Dramatic Dance of Raindrops
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoEVERYDAY PHYSICS Spring showers can arrive with a vengeance. I was sitting in a parked car a few days ago when a light pitter-patter began on the...
History Shows How to Win the Quantum Computing Race
Time Magazine· 7 days agoIn 1981, physicist Richard Feynman first theorized the creation of quantum computers that harnessed the principles of quantum physics to process...
Retired captain of first U.S. nuclear submarine celebrates turning 100 in Spokane
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoApr. 29—Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program. Fogarty ...
Astro-phenomenon: WVU professor beams into National Academy of Sciences
The Charleston Gazette· 3 days agoMaura McLaughlin, an astronomer and physics professor at West Virginia University, has marked...
Young people will shape the future: Nobel Prize winner
China Daily· 7 days agoYoung people are the future of the planet and will shape the society of the future, said Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Queloz, who is also Professor ...
New study is first to use statistical physics to corroborate 1940s social balance theory
Phys.org· 2 days agoIn the 1940s, Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider introduced social balance theory, which explains...
Annual Astronomy Day returns to UW-Eau Claire
WEAU Eau Claire· 24 hours agoFor around 20 years, the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society, and UW-Eau Claire’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, have put on Astronomy Day, which...