Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

Many times people use common words to describe punching power in boxing: Things like "explosive", "heavy hands", "sharp" and so on. All those can be explained by physics. There are actually two kinds ...

EI demands new competencies across power electronics, device physics, real-time optimisation, thermal modelling and embedded ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. We're about halfway through the academic term at Union College, where I ...

In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The strange behavior of quantum physics might seem too unpredictable to rely on for our energy ...

Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

When you think of Star Wars, what's the first image that comes to mind? Lightsabers, right? Everyone loves lightsabers. You can buy some nice replicas, and there are even classes on lightsaber ...