Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

Wormholes are one of science fiction’s favourite cheats. Need characters to cross impossible distances? Skip years of travel?

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...