Could a kid have painted that? Jackson Pollock’s famous pour-painting has child-like characteristics, study shows

by quasarn01 | Nov 20, 2025 | Latest in Physics

What makes art art? Is it the method or the creator? Does it need a color palette and oil paints, or a canvas laid flat on the floor and paint splattered across it? Does it require a critically acclaimed painter, or a toddler with crayons? And when it comes to the...

Scientist captures tiny particles for clues on what sparks lightning

by quasarn01 | Nov 20, 2025 | Latest in Physics

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) it is a reality. By trapping and charging micron-sized particles with lasers, researchers can now observe their...

Physicists demonstrate the constancy of the speed of light with unprecedented accuracy

by quasarn01 | Nov 20, 2025 | Latest in Physics

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth’s motion with that perpendicular to it....

When superfluids collide, physicists find a mix of old and new behavior

by quasarn01 | Nov 20, 2025 | Latest in Physics

Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of a galaxy. Go to Source

Surface-only superconductor is the strangest of its kind

by quasarn01 | Nov 20, 2025 | Latest in Physics

Something strange goes on inside the material platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi₂). A new study by researchers at IFW Dresden and the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat demonstrates that while PtBi₂ may look like a typical shiny gray crystal, electrons moving through it do some...