Coffee cools, buildings crumble, eggs break and stars fizzle out in a universe that seems destined to degrade into a state of uniform drabness known as thermal equilibrium. The astronomer-philosopher ...

Physicists are still chasing the dream of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking to capture the workings of the entire universe in a single equation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

Welcome, everybody to what is the first ever — the inaugural episode — of the new Brandeis University podcast, "The Take: Big Ideas Explained in Under 5 Minutes," where professors explain core ...

Married couples complement each other. Marriage is founded on a mutual understanding of the difference between the sexes — a difference that is complementary, and has the character of law. We know ...