For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TY;9432), today announced that members of its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab, in ...

A complete introduction to vectors designed for beginners and students. I cover notation, magnitude, direction, operations, and how vectors show up in math and physics.

Quantum technologies from ultrasensitive sensors to next-generation information processors depend on the ability of quantum bits, or qubits, to maintain their delicate quantum states for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The highway toll lanes that have been popping up in other parts of the Bay Area, notably Interstate Highway 880, debuted on the Peninsula on Feb. 11 after years of construction. Now, drivers are faced ...

Matter is made up of small particles called atoms. Atoms can exist on their own or together as molecules. Atoms are very small and around 100,000,000 of them end to end would measure 1 centimetre.

Density describes how closely packed the particles are in a solid, liquid or gas. There is little difference between the density of a liquid and its corresponding solid (eg water and ice). This is ...

How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is ...

I click on the “Listen Live” button, but nothing happens. The new live player runs in a pop-up window. If you have any form of Flashblock software installed or a pop-up blocker, make sure that you ...