If ever spotted in the emptiness of space, according to theoretical physicist Eugeny Babichev of the University of ...

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is a staple of sci-fi, hand-waving away multi-millennia journeys between stars. Such a technology would of course be incredibly handy to us in the real world, and while ...

Insights on work and energy drawn from a 1935 physics textbook. See how classic physics explains fundamental concepts like work, energy transfer, and conservation using clear, timeless examples that ...

A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific biochemical processes active — such as those that make up ...