CHICAGO — You might think scientists would have figured out by now the answers to such basic questions as why water droplets splash, why sand castles collapse and what makes shaving cream so creamy.

There is a new standard in town, and it's sort of a big deal. This new standard is the definition of the kilogram, the unit of mass in the SI system—the International System of Units). It replaces the ...

A long-standing basic question in biology relates to how life satisfies the fundamental constraints put on it by physics and chemistry. Darwin's warm pond hypothesis for the origin of primordial cells ...

Nuclear physics is a forbidding subject, even for trained physicists. To understand current news and discussions about nuclear science and technology, some background knowledge is required, and the ...

It’s important for the students to know that physics requires conceptual understanding with a little bit of cramming. This subject is not only important for Class XII students to score well in board ...