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Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

Maritime law from the 19th century in the U.S. and Britain treats ships and boats under one legal category. In the age of sail, the term “ship” referred to a full-rigged vessel with at least three ...

Combining equilibrium and non-equilibrium approaches separates fluid into near-wall and bulk fluid regions, showing that all ...

India's Nobel laureates are celebrated. From Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 to Abhijit Banerjee in 2019, these individuals ...

Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari, co-founders of Physics Wallah, entered the Hurun India Rich List 2025 with a 223% wealth surge to ₹14,520 crore. Edtech entrepreneurs Alakh Pandey and Prateek ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know.” Lots of you weighed in with your own nominations, and there were plenty of good suggestions. So I’ve decided to do a ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues ...

The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business. During the pandemic, public health experts and pharmaceutical companies became popular targets. Now an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

The past few decades have seen tremendous progress in the study of quantum materials with strongly correlated electrons, both in theory and in experiment. At the same time, many important challenges ...