A sitar and a piano can share a stage, but they can never truly agree on a single note. One is tuned to the pure ratios of physics, the other to a grid that deliberately breaks them, and here is the ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...

Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New ...

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Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

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A 2014 US Physics Team exam question asked what shape a flexible cable would make beneath a helicopter, and people could not agree on the answer. To test it, they rented a helicopter and hung a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people assume the basics they learned in school stay with them for life. Yet surveys regularly find surprising gaps in ...