News tagged with physics concepts

Invoked computing: Pizza box is too loud! I can't hear the banana

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the buzz word ubiquitous to any technology futurists and they will know what that implies. Hardware as we know it will recede. More people will communicate with words and images embedded ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

What if there is only one universe?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (56) | comments 102

Using Superheroes to Teach Physics: College Courses in Sci-Fi

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more perplexing questions facing science these days is this one: How do we get more young people interested in science? Leading the way are a number of college courses -- that can ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5 weblog

Gallery of fluid motion: Evocative images and animations bring the science of fluid dynamics to life

The beauty of science often is contained in elegant formulas or compelling data. For the study of fluid dynamics, fortunately, that beauty also is manifest in enticing images and animations of interesting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Boys have greater psychological well-being than girls, due to a better physical self-concept

Self-concept may be defined as the totality of perceptions that each person has of themselves, and this self identity plays an important role in the psychological functioning of everyone. To date, however, there has been ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0