Google is paying tribute to Erwin Schrödinger with its homepage doodle today, as it honors the Austrian quantum physicist on what would have been his 126th birthday. The Nobel Pri...
Pi has currently been calculated to over 10 trillion (10^13) digits. But really, 39 is all you need, as the following video demonstrates.
"You only need 39 digits of pi to be a...
Serge Haroche of France, along with American David Wineland, have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work involving quantum particles.
The $1.2 million prize was announce...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is about the only truly famous astrophysicist we have these days, but boy has he taken off like a rocket (pun most definitely intended). Through countless tele...
Over the past couple of days, you may have read that scientists have found the Higgs boson. You may have even heard some people refer to it as the "God Particle." You also may ha...
If you've been following news from the world of physics lately, it's likely you're familiar with the search for the Higgs boson, or, as the press more dramatically calls it, the Go...
Scientists at IBM have recently have made big gains in quantum computer device performance, which may speed up the realization of a practical, full-scale quantum computer,...
The quiet moments of the day can typically permit deep, existential questions to steep in the mind and, allowed enough time, germinate into severe contemplations that can change th...