Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks to relativity, time actually moves faster on the Red Planet than it does ...

Learn how to calculate electric current and potential in two connected wires! This guide walks you through the physics behind series and parallel circuits, helping you understand voltage drops and ...

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

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating ...

On average, Martian time ticks roughly 477 millionths of a second faster than terrestrial clocks per Earth day. But the Red ...

An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It ...

If you're going to Mars you'd best take along a jar of anti-aging cream because while you're there you're going to age faster ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Scientists find that pure mathematical formulae used to calculate the value of pi 100 years ago has connections to fundamental physics of today – showing up in theoretical models of percolation, ...

The Quetzalcoatlus northropi was the largest flying animal that ever lived. The huge pterosaur existed during the Late ...

Warm dense matter is a state of matter that forms at extreme temperatures and pressures, like those found at the center of ...