Physics & Chemistry

Did Scientists Actually Find Two Higgs Bosons?

The Higgs Boson. The “God Particle.” We found it. It’s “real science.” Story’s over right? Not exactly. An anomaly in the data kinda-sorta makes it look like there might have been two. https://gizmodo.com/did-scientists-finally-discover-the-higgs-boson-a-k-a-5922738 When scientists originally found ol’ higgy, there was a bit of a strange blip that’s still confusing: the particle was decaying into…

Physics & Chemistry Eric Limer

This Is World’s Largest Super Collider That Never Was

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva is 17 miles (27 kilometers) long. It’s an incredible machine capable of releasing 14 TeV (Tera-electronvolts) of energy, which gave the Europeans the lead in experimental physics. But back in the early 80s, there was going to be another beast that could have obliterated the LHC’s record…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

The Secret Science In a Pint of Beer

There are two things we here at Gizmodo love unabashedly: science and beer. So, when we saw that the gang at the UK’s Institute of Physics had launched a site about the physics of beer, we just had to invite them to come for a chat. https://gizmodo.com/the-science-of-beer-bubbles-5967416 We’ve got Henry Lau and Rik Sargent (pictured…

Physics & Chemistry Brent Rose

The Science of Beer Bubbles

Booze is prime territory for the appliance of science. But while we normally use biology to explain bad hangovers or chemistry to create new cocktails, there’s plenty of science lurking within your humble glass of beer, too. https://gizmodo.com/why-cheap-booze-makes-your-hangover-so-horrible-5966569 In fact, the UK’s Institute of Physics has launched a Christmas website based on beer, to help…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

The Rube Goldberg Machine That Defies the Laws of Physics

Taking the Rube Goldberg to a whole new dimension, the wizards (assuming magic plays a big part in this) at 2D House have created this complex chain reaction that seemingly ignores and laughs at the laws of the universe that govern our daily existence. Balls that roll uphill? Ladder climbing blocks? It boggles the mind,…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Amazing Video of a Crane Lifting a Car Using Two Phonebooks

You probably knew that it’s impossible to pull apart two phonebooks put together with interleaving pages. But did you know that the bond—caused by the mechanical friction of the interleaving pages—is so strong that it can lift an entire car? This video demonstrates exactly that. The best part, however, may be to watch the car…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

Five of Physics’s Greatest Sex Scandals

Physicists need love, too. Just ask Paul Frampton, the physics professor who was sentenced recently after an alleged scam involving drugs and a bikini model. We know it can be hard to resist the temptation of bikini models on the Internet, but physicist Paul Frampton was duped pretty bad. The University of North Carolina professor…

Physics & Chemistry Krislyn Placide - Popular Science

When You Sit Down, Does Your Ass Actually Touch the Chair?

There’s a hackneyed scientific description of what it means to touch things: your ass never actually “touches” a chair when you sit down, so it goes, but instead is repelled because of electrons that come up against each other. But is that really the case? This episode of Minute Physics attempts to get to the—ahem—bottom…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Here’s What’s Missing from a High School Physics Education

If you want to be a world leader in science and technology, it’s important that your kids learn all about the science that makes technology work, right? Physics forms the backbone of our understanding of the universe, but our high school physics curriculum are more than a little lacking when it comes to things from…

Physics & Chemistry Eric Limer

Scientists Make Light Travel Infinitely Fast

A team of scientists is claiming to have achieved the seemingly impossible: it’s managed to create a nanoscale device which allows light to travel infinitely fast. But how the hell did they do it, and what does it mean? In empty space, light travels at 300,000,000 meters per second—the maximum speed possible, according to Einstein’s…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Will We Ever Be Able to Predict Everything?

As super computers get more and more super, you’d think that eventually we’d be able to calculate the position and interactions of every atom in the universe and be able to accurately predict the future. In fact, this was once a widely held belief in science, until quantum mechanics arrived and put an end to…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Scientists Are Making Computer Chips of the Future Out of Carbon Nanotubes

Scientists have developed a way to manufacture a new breed of computer chips that use carbon nanotubes in the place of silicon. Nanotubes have plenty of superior electronic properties over silicon, but until now it’s been impossible to manufacture a chip with a high enough density of nanotubes to make an effective processing unit. Now,…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Do You Know the Rest of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation?

He’s synonymous with genius, but Albert Einstein is also best known for what is easily the world’s most famous equation, E=mc². But did you know that it’s actually a shortened version of a longer equation? E=mc² only describes objects that have mass but aren’t moving. The full equation, used for bodies in motion, is E²=(mc²)²+(pc)²…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Whoa, Water Drops Floating on Top of Water Makes No Sense but It’s Awesome

In the comics, the Flash can vibrate his body so fast that he can walk through walls. With water, though, vibration can keep water droplets from being absorbed into a larger surface of water. Instead of coalescing into the larger body, they just gather on top as long as the surface is kept vibrating. It’s…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle Wagner

How Quantum Mechanics Was Born From the Need For a Better Lightbulb

Some of mankind’s most remarkable scientific discoveries came to light as a result of research that had nothing to do with the breakthrough itself. And such was the case with quantum mechanics. Back in the early 1890s the German Bureau of Standards asked Max Planck to design a lightbulb that produced the maximum amount of…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski

Faster-Than-Light Travel May Be Possible

According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, light traveling in a vacuum is the universal speed limit. But scientists love to try and break rules—and now a tweaked version of Einstein’s equations suggests that faster-than-light travel might just be possible. Out with the old… Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity was first published way back…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

How Real-Life Physics Fakes Telekinesis

We all know telekinesis can’t be real. As hard as you try, you can’t will the remote into your hand from five feet away, at least not in this reality. But still, all kinds of seemingly telekinetic forces operate around us all the time. How do they do that? Neil Turok, filling in for MinutePhysics,…

Physics & Chemistry Eric Limer

What Is the Hottest Temperature Anything Can Be?

Everybody knows about absolute zero, but what about the other end of the spectrum, absolute infinity, as it begs to be called? As you might be able to guess, there’s a lot more room to go hotter than there is to go colder, but there still has to be some sort of limit, right? Kinda-sorta.…

Physics & Chemistry Eric Limer

How Many Water Molecules Does It Take to Make Ice?

You might think that sounds like a dumb question: why does it matter how many molecules there are, they just need to be cold enough, right? Wrong: you need enough to make the complex crystal structure that you see so clearly in snow flakes—and now scientists have worked out exactly how many that is. 275.…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Giant Electronic Circuits Make Wonderfully Geeky Art

Most self-respecting geeks find a certain charm in art with order, symmetry and simplicity. If that’s the case for you, then you won’t be able to help but fall in love with Leonardo Ulian‘s beautiful geometric patterns made up of electronic components. Pictured above is his Electronic mandala 01—which gives a nod to the mandala…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Did Scientists Actually Find Two Higgs Bosons?

This Is World’s Largest Super Collider That Never Was

The Secret Science In a Pint of Beer

The Science of Beer Bubbles

The Rube Goldberg Machine That Defies the Laws of Physics

Amazing Video of a Crane Lifting a Car Using Two Phonebooks

Five of Physics’s Greatest Sex Scandals

When You Sit Down, Does Your Ass Actually Touch the Chair?

Here’s What’s Missing from a High School Physics Education

Scientists Make Light Travel Infinitely Fast

Will We Ever Be Able to Predict Everything?

Scientists Are Making Computer Chips of the Future Out of Carbon Nanotubes

Do You Know the Rest of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation?

Whoa, Water Drops Floating on Top of Water Makes No Sense but It’s Awesome

How Quantum Mechanics Was Born From the Need For a Better Lightbulb

Faster-Than-Light Travel May Be Possible

How Real-Life Physics Fakes Telekinesis

What Is the Hottest Temperature Anything Can Be?

How Many Water Molecules Does It Take to Make Ice?

Giant Electronic Circuits Make Wonderfully Geeky Art

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