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More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Amelia Frank published a handful of scholarly papers which are well-cited for the time. Yet histories of physics mostly ...

A number of GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screens by 2030 under new proposals from the exams watchdog. Proposals in a consultation launched on Thursday could see GCSEs in smaller-entry ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

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Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

In a first, a scientific conference welcomed paper submissions from any area of science, but with one catch: AI had to do most of the work. Called Agents4Science 2025, the Oct. 22 virtual event ...

V levels will become the “only pathway” for young people aged 16-19 to gain vocational qualifications equivalent to an A level, the government announced yesterday. The new level 3 qualifications ...

The image of a scientist in a white lab coat is a common stereotype. But from agriculture to auto repair, Americans say a wide variety of other jobs also rely on at least some science knowledge. In a ...