In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a lively history of science scene in Ireland. However since then, this area of study has been greatly neglected. Queen’s University History of Science ...
In her upcoming Nauenberg History of Science Lecture, World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of ...
More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...
Genesis Boykin, an archival intern with the Niels Bohr Library & Archives (NBLA), plays a key role in this project. She recently worked on the Gloria Lubkin papers. Lubkin was a pioneering physicist ...
The results are just what theory predicts, but when the theory clashes as strongly with everyday experience as this, ...
As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge ...
After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with ...
Overview: Quantum Physics for Beginners by Carl J. Pratt simplifies core ideas like wave-particle duality and entanglement, making it ideal for first-time reade ...
The American Physical Society Global Physics Summit is the world’s largest meeting of physicists ...
Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...