Weird effect: Have you ever noticed that screwdrivers in your toolbox can seemingly change form? (Courtesy: iStock/M_a_y_a) As a new decade dawns, you will be thrilled to learn that I have come across ...

In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

The 101-year-old novel shows that “physics and literature are not mutually exclusive.” In his paper, Manos notes that the fictional Bloom fancies himself a man familiar with science, but Joyce slyly ...

Video game physics are something that we often take for granted. If you make your avatar jump, you expect it to come down and not go shooting off into space. Although, if you have played Skyrim long ...

A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in physics for work that enabled the creation of macroscopic quantum systems, a foundation of quantum computers and other technology. John Clarke, ...