physics
PC

Video Game Car Crashes Have Never Looked This Good

This is what happens when you plug the physics system of truck sim Rigs of Rods into Crytek’s CryEngine3: car crashes so nice you can watch them over and over and over.

July 5, 2011
News

Angry Birds, Happy Physicists

Galileo discovered the language of nature. Einstein questioned the colour of rainbows. Today’s physicists ponder the vertical acceleration and horizontal velocity of an angry bird in flight.

June 21, 2011
In Real Life

Learn Physics The Angry Birds Way

I’m a bit of a physics hobbyist. That doesn’t mean that I understand or can even converse in the language of motion, but I love reading about it.

April 8, 2011
News

Has Fermilab Really Discovered An Entirely New Subatomic Particle?

Yesterday, physicists announced the discovery of a strange anomaly, one that cannot easily be explained by our current understanding of particle physics. We examine what’s really going on here, and why we all may have missed the really exciting discovery.

February 19, 2011
News

Light-Absorbing Anti-Lasers Could One Day Rule Your Computer

Scientists at Yale University have created the world’s first anti-laser, a device in which two beams of light clash together, ultimately cancelling each other out. How could such a device change the way we do our computing?

January 11, 2011
In Real Life

It Took A Team Of Physicists All This Time To Figure Out How DVDs Work

Though DVDs have been consumer-grade tech for years, it wasn’t until yesterday that scientists announced they were certain why they worked. Now we know that burning a DVD is really more like freezing it.

December 30, 2010
PlayStation

These Are Some Of The Guys Who Made Red Dead Look So Good

THE PHYSICS OF VIDEO GAMES from Dave Thomas on Vimeo.

Half the visual appeal of Red Dead Redemption is in the landscapes. Those were done by Rockstar. But the other half is John Marston’s swagger, or the way a bandit gets caught in his horse’s stirrups.

November 27, 2010
News

Large Hadron Collider Proves The Universe Was Once A Liquid

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator smashed together lead nuclei at the highest energies possible, creating dense sub-atomic particles that reach temperatures of over ten trillion degrees. Beyond being awesome, this achievement shows the early universe was actually a liquid.

November 18, 2010
News

And Now We’re Trapping Antimatter Atoms

Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so how do you go about capturing atoms of antihydrogen for study? The brilliant minds at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva have figured it out.

November 17, 2010
News

A Space-Time Cloak Is Much More Exciting Than An Invisibility Cloak

Do you find the idea of an honest-to-goodness cloak of invisibility intriguing? How about a cloak that obscures events in space-time? Science is making it happen.

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