The shocking discovery that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate has taken the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. Three American-born astrophysicists will divide the $1.5 million prize, ...

Newton's Second Law states that force equals mass times acceleration. This can be investigated using a set-up like this one. You can use this set-up to investigate how changing two separate factors, ...

The $200-million Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) grant awarded to the University of Toronto’s Acceleration Consortium will help build a world-leading centre for accelerated materials ...

Electrically charged particles are relatively easy to accelerate using electric and magnetic fields. Neutral particles cannot be steered in the same way, which is a bit disappointing, since they are ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a congressionally chartered not-for-profit organization and one of the world's largest scientific societies with more than 230,000 individuals in our membership ...

If it’s possible to make a mystery more mysterious, then a study of dark energy by astronomer Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge may have done so. Earlier this month, at the ...

Science-driven transformation pivotal to SDGs acceleration, say scientists in new UN report 12 September 2023 — Ahead of the SDG Summit, a new UN report by an independent group of scientists launched ...

A new study has found that the occasional spirited acceleration in an EV is actually good for its long-term battery health. A recent Stanford study shows that EV batteries benefit from "dynamic" ...