A Georgetown University physics professor won $600,000 to develop new magnetic technology for computer storage and processing, the department announced Jan. 21. Gen Yin received the award, a five-year ...

There is always the choice between the market principle and the hegemonic principle. There is no third way or middle ground between the two, often presented as ...

There are several ways of defining voltage; the correct physics definition is energy per unit charge ... The output, known as alternating current, is the type of power that electric utility companies ...

The use of a fuel known as “renewable diesel” being at the central heating plant at the University of Massachusetts on the coldest days of the year, in place of liquefied natural gas and ...

Before Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind," NASA staged a series of missions that paved the way for his team's ...

Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that? Special ...

Stevens is celebrating two of its faculty members, Dr. Victor Lawrence and Dr. Nicholaus Parziale, who received two of the ...

Is fire conductive? As ridiculous that may sound at first glance, from a physics perspective the rapid oxidation process we call ‘fire’ produces a lot of substances that can reduce the ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Challenging centuries-old assumptions about thermodynamics, a new study in published in Physical Review Letters has shown ...

With an aggressive reading of the Constitution, the president aims to upend the balance of power in Washington.

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