A brief attempt to engage readers in the biggest questions of physics dwells on beauty and wonder Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead Books, 96 pages, $18 In the early 1960s, ...

Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

So Oh. Yeah. Yeah. This is all about having combining the engineering design process and the physics theory. It uses impulse momentum, Newton's laws of motion, and kinematics, which is what they've ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As the land is to the sea, a foothold in an immensity, so the Earth is to the cosmos. No wonder some scientists are ...

When I was a kid, my mother would sneak brussels sprouts on to my plate. I hated those revolting little orbs of bitterness – but Mother was wily. “It’s only a small one,” she’d say, as though ...

A slow change of microscopic magnetic structures in metallic wires induced by external driving forces, commonly called 'creep' motion, has been studied by a group of researchers. This has allowed them ...

In another part of this issue we publish as a special supplement a translation of Prof. N. Bohr’s lecture on atomic structure, which was delivered at Stockholm last December on the occasion of ...