Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

When I arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the prairie suburbs west of Chicago to begin my Ph.D., the mood among many physicists there still carried a quiet sadness. On ...

Experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) require breathtaking precision. Each of the 192 lasers is focused to a width of a few millimeters to enter a ...

How is this possible? What wizardry enables a striker to change the ball’s trajectory after it leaves their foot? It’s not magic, it’s fluid dynamics, the behavior of objects in a fluid—and air is ...

The world’s oceans are rising at an accelerating pace, and scientists now say they can fully explain what’s driving it. Warming seawater is the biggest factor, while melting glaciers and polar ice ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were to squeeze that ...

Dr. William M. Bugg, former head of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's physics department, recently passed away at age 95. Under his leadership, the department gained national stature and ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds ...

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A team of researchers have extended Berry’s well-known geometric-dynamic decomposition from the wave-evolution phase to a distinct class of wave scattering problems Wave scattering events can now be ...