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A new study examining some of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches in the Codex Arundel reveals the artist calculated the earth's ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and recentl ...

The trajectories of objects often feature anomalies that can be useful in discovering new physics.” These are the words of Yu-Dai Tsai, first author of a recent paper published in Nature ...

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are ...

For decades, the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir has served as the visible boundary between war and peace, ...

Physics, particularly forces and motion, can be challenging. By observing everyday motion, conducting simple experiments, and ...

Cynthia Erivo says she has not tired of singing or hearing 'Defying Gravity,' which her character Elphaba sings in the film ...

By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...

Over the decades, physicists have compiled various lists of the most important fundamental constants. Generally, there are a ...

The equations that govern everything—from ... A growing group of physicists believe that it originates in the force of gravity itself. But to get there requires a radical reshaping of Einstein ...

While quantum mechanics governs the behavior of particles at the smallest scales, general relativity describes the force of gravity ... role in the modified equations of gravity but also opens ...