Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...
The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in the planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon is governed by the Navier-Stokes ...
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that there are limits to how precisely certain pairs of physical properties, like ...
The renowned cosmologist wants to make the ideas of modern physics accessible to anyone who’s willing to do a bit of extra thinking. The following is an excerpt from The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: ...
For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...
Running a single physics simulation can take hours or days, depending on the complexity of the geometry and the equations ...
Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...