Do you have a new physics joke, a fresh form of physics wit, or an example of unexpected humour that gets you thinking? If so, Robert P Crease wants to hear from you Q: Why won’t Heisenberg’s ...

Christine McKinley was a seventh-grader in Alaska when she decided it was better to be cool than smart and turned herself into someone who “smoked nonfiltered Camels and swore like an oil pipeline ...

If you stayed awake in high school physics, you may remember Brownian motion — the hypnotic ricocheting of molecules as they carom around under the microscope. But no frenetic molecule careens about ...

What if you took a dip in a nuclear reactor’s storage pool, where discarded fuel is kept for years until it’s not so radioactive anymore? Could you survive? This is the kind of random question Randall ...