In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

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British physicist Melvin Vopson proposes that gravity reduces information entropy, hinting that the universe may function ...

Complex fluids, such as polymer melts and concentrated suspensions, are foundational materials for industrial products, ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

The erasure of women in science also marked Canadian scientist and U of T alumnus Maud Menten’s career. Frederick Banting, ...

Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods—most notably, they don't use any propellant. But, ...

Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy ...

Officially, Spain announced a military embargo on Israel as if strategy were a microphone and virtue were a supply chain. Yet ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...