In 1666 a young Isaac Newton was waiting out the plague in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire when an apple fell from a tree. Newton wondered why such bodies always moved downwards, rather than ...

Born Nov. 29, 1803, in Salzburg, Austria, Christian Doppler studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Vienna. After struggling to secure an academic post and working as a ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

An article on Live Science about the birth of the universe reports three UB physicists have analyzed the latest measurements offering a hint at what went on in the early universe and found that only ...

As 2016 comes to a close, Symmetry writer Mike Perricone takes us through the latest additions to his collection of popular science books related to particle physics. The year 2016 brought us books on ...

CubeSats – small, low-cost satellites – could soon become self-propelled, thanks to a rocket-motor concept developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US. While CubeSats are a ...