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This article was taken from the September issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content ...

Physics Girl and Rodney Mullen explain the unusual physics behind skateboard tricks. Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen teams up with Physics Girl to explain the unusual physics behind skateboard ...

Levitating Man Trick Revealed In today's video I show all secrets of building levitation platform for "levitating man" trick.

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

For many, it's the start of a new semester of physics labs. That means there are new students in that introductory course. Of course, no one is really 100 percent ready to start these labs---but ...

The water bottle flipping craze, in which a partially filled bottle of water is flipped and magically lands upright, swept the globe a couple of years ago. Now a group of Dutch scientists has designed ...

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 ...

A TRICK of the light has allowed us to bend the rules of quantum mechanics. This may one day prove useful for building quantum computers. Many of our intuitions about quantum mechanics are based on a ...

An excess of X-rays is bad for your health – which is why radiographers step out of the room before they zap you. Now a ghostly physics trick could reduce the dose needed for a clear image, because it ...

If it bites or scratches, it's biology. If it stinks or pops, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. Once, that was the universal physics joke. No longer true, not in Dick Berg's department ...