After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

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During World War II, physicist Richard Feynman famously cracked safes at a secret atomic bomb project. His actions stemmed from pure curiosity, not malice. This playful approach to understanding ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

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Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Learn momentum conservation by building a Python model of elastic collisions! This tutorial guides you step-by-step through simulating elastic collisions, analyzing momentum transfer, and visualizing ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Key points An estimated 8.7 million premature deaths occur globally each year from air pollution attributable to fossil fuel ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...