A hands-on physics experiment demonstrates how a basic self-braking pulley works, explaining the forces and friction that allow it to stop itself without extra mechanisms. What happened with the 14th ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University. Nichols, 64, had ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, who will be killed by lethal injection, confessed to killing Karen Pulley and raping other women Tennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection on ...

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Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

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 ...