If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the ground first? As you may recall from high school physics, this is a trick question. Neglecting air resistance, they ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a ...

Discover three captivating science experiments that bring physics concepts to life! Watch as a water balloon burst in slow motion reveals the power of surface tension in fluids, followed by a ...

Assistant Professor Timur Tscherbul’s CAREER award for the Department of Physics, College of Science, supports research that highlights the importance of scientists’ ability to model and explain the ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a Request for Information (RFI) to gauge interest in the U.S. soft matter science community to conduct experiments with Soft Matter ...

Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little in common with the ice in a household freezer. Yet new experiments show that ...