Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

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One of the stops on our journey throughout Macaronesia was to Madeira, an island of astonishing contrasts—from the hustle and bustle of big city life in Funchal to the tranquil primeval woodlands that ...

A collaboration between the University of Konstanz and Forschungszentrum Jülich has achieved the first fully tunable ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.

Strengthen your Physics score with these exam-level problems covering friction, circular motion, pulleys, collisions, and ...

Physicists have demonstrated with unprecedented accuracy that the speed of light remains constant. In 1887, a landmark physics experiment was carried out by American researchers Michelson and Morley.

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 ...

A version of this story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Philadelphia detected its first case of a deadly, fast-spreading strain of influenza on September 17, 1918.