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Physics Girl and Rodney Mullen explain the unusual physics behind skateboard tricks. Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen teams up with Physics Girl to explain the unusual physics behind skateboard ...

This article was taken from the September issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content ...

A revolutionary achievement could pave the way for smaller, more efficient nuclear clocks. Last year, a research team led by UCLA achieved a milestone scientists had pursued for half a century. They s ...

The water bottle flipping craze, in which a partially filled bottle of water is flipped and magically lands upright, swept the globe a couple of years ago. Now a group of Dutch scientists has designed ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

When the Physics World editorial team started blogging in earnest early in 2008, it was our first chance to interact much more directly and informally with the physics community – prior to that we had ...

A TRICK of the light has allowed us to bend the rules of quantum mechanics. This may one day prove useful for building quantum computers. Many of our intuitions about quantum mechanics are based on a ...

If it bites or scratches, it's biology. If it stinks or pops, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. Once, that was the universal physics joke. No longer true, not in Dick Berg's department ...

An excess of X-rays is bad for your health – which is why radiographers step out of the room before they zap you. Now a ghostly physics trick could reduce the dose needed for a clear image, because it ...