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Why Is Mercury Liquid?
Mercury, a transition metal belonging to Group 12 of the periodic table, remains a liquid at room temperature…
What’s Above This Plate On the Ground?
The amount of air above a 1 square meter area at sea level is equivalent to 10,300 liters…
Lightspeed Baseball, And All the Trouble That Comes With It
At such an extreme speed, the baseball’s impact on the surrounding air and objects would cause atomic nuclei…
Is “Antigravity” Real—And Does “Antimatter” Have Anything To Do With It?
Conducting experiments to measure the effects of gravity on antimatter is extremely difficult due to the rarity of…
A Year In Physics: The Best of 2023 Physics
Quanta Magazine recounts the best and the brightest of 2023’s studies in the field of physics.
Does the Speed of Light Ever Change?
The slowing down of light in a material is due to the interaction of the light wave with…
Bending Light (And All of Its Intricacies)
The video involves the concept of refraction, where light slows down as it enters a medium like glass,…
Brain Bogglers With Balls and Walls
Steve Mould gives us a crash course into some curiosities with how our world works—this time with balls…
Bringing classical physics into the modern world with Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
Galileo, holding two balls, about to perform his legendary experiment. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images Larry M. Silverberg,…
Springs and Prisms Are Apparently Related
You’d think that a prism and a spring wouldn’t have much in common, but a thread traverses through…