Read article: Ice crystals pull together
Ice crystals pull together
Avalanche defence and ski safety could benefit from the discovery of a new structural feature in packed snow
Read article: Ice crystals pull together
Read article: Physicists go for goal
Physicists go for goal
Football scores have been tackled by statistical physics
The magnetic attraction of learning
A new study likens the classroom learning process to the alignment of spins in a magnet
Cracking the Brazil nut problem
Segregation in a bowl of nuts may be akin to condensation in gases
Internet aids the spread of computer viruses
The structure of the Internet allows viruses to propagate surprisingly easily
Physics and the stock market: playing with fire
Combustion theory predicts when shares will jump in value
First evidence for the Brain Drain
Sharp Pierson and Cotgreave of the Save British Science Society analysed the publishing records of 252 scientists who gained their doctoral degrees in the UK. They compared the quality of the scientis...
Read article: The physics of a spinning coin
The physics of a spinning coin
Moffatt became interested in the problem while looking for Christmas presents for his grandchildren. “I came across the toy in a mail order catalogue and thought it sounded interesting,” h...
Physics get physical
For ‘short’ races the average speed of a world-record performance declines sharply with increasing distance. However, above a certain distance, the decline is more gentle. For both running...
The music of earthquakes
Diodati says he became intrigued by the link between music and physics after thinking about the crescendo in Rossini’s La calunnia è un venticello, an aria from the Barber of Seville. The w...
