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Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Weird effect: Have you ever noticed that screwdrivers in your toolbox can seemingly change form? (Courtesy: iStock/M_a_y_a) As a new decade dawns, you will be thrilled to learn that I have come across ...

In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

Negative mass is a hypothetical concept that says matter can exist with a mass opposite to normal matter. Instead of having a positive weight—1kg, for example—negative mass would weigh minus 1kg. This ...

Occasionally there are physics lab demonstrations that I think are pretty awesome but that my students just think are "meh." This is one of those cases. The basic idea in this demo, which I used in my ...