University spin-out firms offer physicists the chance to apply their knowledge in a commercial setting, but the path to success for founders and their employees has its ups and downs, as Margaret ...

A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...

Taken together, Smith’s experiences at CWU as a student and educator gave him an enormous sense of pride in the institution ...

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The Department of Physics at the University of Stuttgart is presenting three lectures on current scientific topics in lecture hall V53.01 on the Vaihigen campus. The lectures are aimed at anyone with ...

Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a second-story window. If a cat is simply a mechanical system ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — When thinking of boat races in Northeast Ohio, one may imagine colorful yachts whizzing by the shoreline of Lake Erie on a warm summer day. Or maybe cardboard boats in a swimming pool ...