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Stefan Hutzler and Denis Weaire are in the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Their postgraduate student Ali Irannezhad currently performs his experiments in his home in Tehran, Iran.

Physics, especially the part about forces and motion, often feels like a maze of confusing concepts and formulas. If you’ve ever stared at a problem about an object moving or a force acting and ...

When the long-awaited solar eclipse hit Europe on March 20, 2015, Germany held its breath. With more solar power capacity than any other nation, the country of 82 million was hit hard when up to 80% ...

The stunning, razor-sharp spires of stone forests can form in deceptively simple conditions, a sugary new experiment finds. Using sticks of candy, researchers discovered that cylindrical shapes can ...