This decade marked not just one but a series of turning points in the history of physics. The 2010s were an incredible decade for new knowledge, but more importantly, this decade’s discoveries—and the ...

Ever since Isaac Newton and the falling apple, surprises have often pushed physics forward. Many truths about the universe we live in and the particles that make up ourselves and the world around us, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. In December, 1930, a group of physicists convened a meeting in Tübingen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. (The following is an approximation of what I will say in my invited ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

Fin-de-siècle physics: a world picture in flux -- The world of physics -- Discharges in gases and what followed -- Atomic architecture -- The slow rise of quantum theory -- Physics at low temperatures ...

Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter Joseph D. Martin University of Pittsburgh Press (2018) What is “physics”? From the birth of the nuclear age at the ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Cosmological Koans: a Journey to the Heart of Physics by Anthony Aguirre Cosmic questions: Anthony Aguirre’s new book borrows the concept of koans from Zen Buddhism: ...

In a little-known chapter of university history, the Manhattan Project scientist taught for several years in the Department of Physics, and his legacy appears in the fabric of the department Al ...