Many football players are not known for their academic knowledge, though fans were left in shock when a video of Travis Kelce explaining physics to his Kansas City Chiefs teammates went viral. In a ...

University spin-out firms offer physicists the chance to apply their knowledge in a commercial setting, but the path to success for founders and their employees has its ups and downs, as Margaret ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — When thinking of boat races in Northeast Ohio, one may imagine colorful yachts whizzing by the shoreline of Lake Erie on a warm summer day. Or maybe cardboard boats in a swimming pool ...

Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a second-story window. If a cat is simply a mechanical system ...

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A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...