Next week, Prof. Shaul Hanany will lie on a bed of nails while someone takes a hammer and smashes a cement block on his stomach. But he's not worried. Really. He knows that physics is on his side.
When the Physics World editorial team started blogging in earnest early in 2008, it was our first chance to interact much more directly and informally with the physics community – prior to that we had ...
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has used a water blob to explain Earth's shape. Discover the physics of surface tension, rotation, and inertia in this space and physics explainer.
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