I find it odd that some people still express skepticism or outright denial of climate change science. Physicists derived one of the fundamental insights into climate change by 1850: Air holds 7% more ...

To juniors and seniors at the University of Wisconsin - Madison planning on medical school, introductory physics is far more menacing than its "introductory" title might connote. For many of these ...

The following is an excerpt from Seven Brief Lessons On Physics, by Carlo Rovelli. These lessons were written for those who know little or nothing about modern science. Together they provide a rapid ...

A long-standing basic question in biology relates to how life satisfies the fundamental constraints put on it by physics and chemistry. Darwin's warm pond hypothesis for the origin of primordial cells ...

From Newton's Laws of Motion to electric forces, these concepts explain why matter behaves the way it does.artpartner-images/The Image Bank/Getty Images Physics is the science that quantifies reality.

In 2010 Prof. Shlomo Havlin and collaborators published an article in the journal Nature proposing that the abrupt electricity failure causing the famous 2003 Italy blackout was a consequence of the ...