Physics

A magnetic field is created from movement of electric charges through metal.

Matter in our world is composed of atoms. Every atom includes electrons and a nucleus, where protons and neutrons reside. We all know atoms are very small – but how small exactly?

Modern science has shown that all you really need is an exploding star, or at least a particle accelerator

Over 150 years from Marie Curie’s birth, the radioactivity pioneer is still the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes for different scientific fields

Does the number of protons in the nucleus determine the type of element?

Scientists have added four new elements to the Periodic Table

The International Safe Cracking Tournament – Digital Event 2020

What happens if a time traveler kills his or her grandfather? How do you stop a time machine from just appearing somewhere in space, millions of kilometers from home?

The liquid rises as we think about someone we love

With materials found in any house, you can turn a regular bag into a “bomb” with a time-release mechanism

A festive experiment for Hanukkah, Passover, or anytime hard boiled eggs are on the menu

Measurement errors that made history

There are a little over one hundred elements in the universe. How were they created?

There is no evidence that currently justifies the fear of the fifth generation of cellular phones

To properly bake pizza, some basic physical principles have to be considered

Israeli study: changes in the cellular environment damage the nerves’ insulating coating

How do a shofar’s length and shape affect its sound? And can it be played like other wind instruments?

A new study substantiates the theory of the existence and properties of the particle discovered six years ago

Ant-Man and the Wasp exposes two interesting truths about quantum theory

Yoseph Imry, a mesoscopic physics pioneer, has passed away

In memory of Vera Rubin, the astrophysicist who shed new light on the motion of galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of dark matter

The 119th birthday of Irène Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering induced radioactivity

50th anniversary of the discovery of the pulsar, for which the Nobel Prize was not awarded to the scientist who found it, but only to her supervisor

The discovery of gravitational waves has enabled the real-time detection of a high-energy collision and the study of its repercussions