The majority of physicists live under the assumption of a strict and immutable set of laws that govern the universe — but not all. “What we often call laws of physics are really just consistent ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

And it's why a basketball dropped from the top of a dam seems to defy gravity as it zooms out across the water, as it does in this viral video from 2015. It's a law of fluid mechanics that states that ...

The dominant view in physics is simple: the laws of nature are fixed. Gravity pulls as it always has; quantum probabilities collapse with the same stubborn indifference today as billions of years ago.

We recently reported on a theory that says our universe might not have gotten its start when it collapsed in on itself and exploded. The theory says that such an event may have been prevented by the ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

A silica sphere with a radius of 50 nanometers is trapped levitating in a beam of light. J. Adam Fenster, University of Rochester, CC BY-SA One might think that the optical tweezer – a focused laser ...

Around 350 years ago, Isaac Newton made a simple observation that would forever alter the field of physics: He realized that the force that pulls an apple down to Earth is the same force that keeps ...

Mishkat Bhattacharya receives funding from the Office of Naval Research, United States. Nick Vamivakas receives funding from the Office of Naval Research, United States. Amazingly, this is far from ...