A team of physicists from the University at Buffalo has developed a user-friendly method that allows researchers to solve ...

Sometimes you think you have a complete understanding of something and then BOOM—a simple problem throws everything out the window. Let's consider a very basic physics problem involving pushing a ...

Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in ...

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Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

A widely-held understanding of electromagnetic radiation has been challenged in newly published research. The study found that the normal direct correspondence between the bandwidths of the current ...