Anthony Raykh, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, walked the hallways of his department, knocking ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Turin have forced turbulent energy to flow in the wrong ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

College students spend anywhere from 12 to 18 hours per week in a lecture hall. Their eyes wander across their computer. They sort their to-do list, complete the Wordle and text their friends. In the ...

From ketchup to quicksand, non-Newtonian fluids have long fascinated and puzzled scientists. Unlike ordinary fluids, their flow properties change depending on how much force is applied, but the ...

Step into most college classrooms today and you will likely see a familiar scene: slides glowing at the front, a professor lecturing, students scribbling notes or staring at laptops. Despite decades ...

Controlling the flow Vortex-induced heat backflow (top) in a simulated 2D graphite strip, compared with conventional heat flow (bottom). (Courtesy: 2026 THEOS EPFL CC BY SA) We are all familiar with ...

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Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a new paper suggests. Recent observations have revealed that our understanding ...

Many modern technologies rely on microscopic elements, such as microchips in smartphones. The manufacturing process for these elements requires their surfaces to be exposed to different types of ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot itself without collisions or external agitation has remained a longstanding ...