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Most of us like the idea of being environmentally friendly, but we’re disinterested in making certain changes because they’re expensive, inconvenient, or both. In...

In our most recent Insights puzzle, I challenged readers to figure out how certain magic tricks work. The tricks in question were of the...

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The electric current in semiconductor materials can be conducted by electrons and positively charged holes or missing electrons. When light strikes a material, electrons...

Pengfei Zhang1, Chunxiao Liu2, Shao-Kai Jian3, and Xiao Chen41Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of...

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates fell for a second consecutive week, but still remain above 5%. The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.10% in the week...

SpaceX Starlink is sending up two constellations of satellites. SpaceX with 20,000 employees is likely running at $4 billion per year in expenses for...

Cause-and-effect explanations like “catnip causes cats to be happy”, “jokes cause laughter” and “exciting research causes Physics World articles” are a useful way to...

Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles...

MORRISVILLE – Lenovo says it had a “record fiscal year,” some analysts have shifted their ratings on the company’s stock as Lenovo shared concerns about...

In all of physical law, there’s arguably no principle more sacrosanct than the second law of thermodynamics — the notion that entropy, a measure...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we look at some of the big questions in physics from biological and philosophical points...