David Carlson of Franklin is a professor emeritus of philosophy and religion. Columns such as this, published on a printed ...

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This video explores the three fundamental forces of the quantum world: electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force, and their roles in shaping atoms, matter, and the universe.

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In Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, the audience isn’t introduced to the Xenomorph right off the bat, but to the glorious Nostromo travelling through space. Utilizing industrial scrap and ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...