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Learning About Magnets, Electricity and Acceleration at the Amusement Park
After mentioning the Six Flags America Roller Coaster Design Contest earlier this month, I received an invitation to Physics Day at the amusement park. I had to convince my boss I didn’t intend to ride roller coasters all day (unlikely, since I get queasy riding backwards on the Metro), but then I ...
April 27, 2009 |
By Sarah Zielinski
The Coldest Place in the Universe
Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero
January 2008 |
By Tom Shachtman
Signs of Life
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger analyzes light from distant stars for evidence we're not alone
October 2007 |
By Charles Seife
Finding a Home in the Cosmos
In a new book written with his wife, Nancy Abrams, cosmologist Joel Primack argues that the universe, far from being a meaningless void, was meant for us. Sort of.
July 2006 |
By Jerry Adler
Lighthouse of the Skies
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory probes the universe for the unimaginable
July 2003 |
By Lawrence M. Small
Rain Man
Snow, sleet, hail or volcanic eruption cloud physicist Peter Hobbs will find a way to fly into it
October 2002 |
By David Laskin
Putting the Brakes on Light
Light travels 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum; in Lene Hau's lab, it ambles at 38 miles an hour
June 1999 |
By John P. Wiley, Jr.
Phenomena, Comment & Notes
Today's physics appears to allow outrageous possibilities: faster-than-light travel across the galaxy, for example, or even our learning to make new universes to specification
December 1995 |
By John P. Wiley jr
