It's the 18th hole and the game's on the line. You line up your putt, take a breath, and roll the ball toward the hole. The ...

The "Golfer's Curse" is not really bad luck—just applied physics, according to the researchers behind a new study.

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

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For the first time, researchers have measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus of an unstable element. This is a major step toward a nuclear clock that could keep even better time than ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A group of 245 Brazilian daredevils recently set a record when they performed a harrowing feat: ...

The first Foucault’s pendulum I ever saw was at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the city where I was born. The pendulum hung in a stairwell. Its wire was attached to the ceiling four stories ...