Well, here’s a new way to visual scientific concepts. The sometimes obscure language of physics has been translated into British Sign Language (BSL). It’s now available online, complete with videos to ...

Why can't you take a lot of physics terms literally? Shouldn't “the Theory of Everything” be called “the theory of some things but not everything”? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and ...

(Reuters) - Scientists started attempts to collide particles on Tuesday in an experiment that aims to re-enact on a small scale the "Big Bang" that created the universe, possibly unlocking the ...

German words in the physicist’s lexicon. (Image by Mathew Ward) Like many disciplines, physics incorporates words from a number of different languages – and this can often leave a physicist ...

In the last few weeks I've been working on a slightly more formal version of this post on black-body radiation for use in something else. One of the tricky things in writing about the development of ...

In the last episode of MythBusters, they tried to reproduce the following experiment. Suppose you are driving in a car at 60 mph and you shoot a ball backwards at 60 mph (with respect to the car).

Studying physics is tough as it is, but if you’re deaf it can seem even harder as many of the terms don’t have sign language equivalents. Now the esoteric language of physics has been translated into ...

THERE has for some time existed an international committee, the ‘S.U.N.’, charged with the duty among other subjects of standardizing the nomenclature of physical quantities. So far as concerns such ...