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Join us for an exclusive in-person event at the Royal Institution in central London this November, as the Institute of Physics commemorates the past, present and future of quantum physics Regular ...

Many layers: knife sharpness and cutting technique greatly affect the speed of droplets that are created when cutting an onion (courtesy: Zixuan Wu and Sunghwan “Sunny” Jung at Cornell University) ...

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Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...