Ben de Haas is an experimental psychologist at Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany. In the middle of the pandemic, I got an e-mail asking whether I had access to data from the experiments behind a paper I'd published in 2014. Three months…
A Velcro-like fastener with a microscopic design that looks like tiny mushrooms could mean advances for everyday consumers and scientific fields like robotics. In Biointerphases, published by AIP Publishing, researchers from Wageningen University…
Even if you weren't a physics major, you've probably heard something about the Higgs boson. There was the title of a 1993 book by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman that dubbed the Higgs 'The God Particle.' There was the search for the Higgs particle…
British astronomer John Michell wrote a foundational paper in November 1783, later published in the Royal Society's journal, that was the first to speculate on the existence of black hole-like objects. His intent was to discover a useful method to…
