Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, or ...

Researchers at the University of Tuebingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial intelligence that designs entirely new, sometimes unusual, experiments in quantum physics ...

A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on the sole hold the key ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN)- Youngstown State University is home to one of the first established Physics Olympics in the country.

The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades. EMILY KWONG, HOST: ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.

Watching a ski jumper fly through the air might get you wondering, “How do they do that?” The answer is – physics!That’s why this episode, we have two physicists – Amy Pope, a physicist from Clemson ...

Ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like ...