Physicists have long tried to model the chaotic phenomenon of turbulence. Now, a team has pioneered a new quantum ...

Netflix has released a new docudrama titled Einstein and the Bomb, that narrates the story of the German-born theoretical physicist’s life and career. Interestingly, this project used archival ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...

Scientists call this the Magnus force, named after German physicist Heinrich Gustav Magnus who first described it in 1852. The force is generated by the spinning ball dragging air around it in an ...

Maxwell also boldly postulated that such waves travelled at the speed of light. In the late 1880s, German physicist Heinrich Hertz tested Maxwell's theory. He succeeded in producing ...