It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later. Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

According to all the known laws of physics, the Big Bang should have created a Universe consisting of both matter and ...

As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “ in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics ,” but a new and completely unexpected discovery by a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst runs ...

Calculating the maximum force between two electric charges! ⚡🔋 In this video, we’ll break down how to calculate the maximum force between two point charges using Coulomb’s Law. Understand the ...

Fragmentation, or how things break, may seem like a truly random process, but new study shows that fragmentation will actually follow a process to maximize entropy. This behavior is a manifestation of ...