John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing the physics of solid states during the field’s heyday in the 1950s before ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is a powerful tool for modeling and understanding micro-/nanoscale thermal transport in solids, where Fourier’s law can fail due to non-diffusive effect ...

Researchers at ETH have studied in detail how single moving electrons can cause a material to become magnetic. Using quantum simulators, researchers in the U.S. have created images made of coloured ...

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 ...

The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are governed by the same laws of physics, and give rise to a complex phenomenon known ...

Solving for the force to push a cart at constant velocity Posted: January 21, 2026 | Last updated: January 21, 2026 Learn how to calculate the force required to push a cart at constant velocity. This ...