Reading Christopher Pinney’s 2018 book The Waterless Sea: a Curious History of Mirages, I was struck by a phrase he used to describe mirages, and indeed all illusions: “real, but not true”. There is ...

Guess which of these five unbelievable facts are real physics in this April Fools' Day episode of What the Physics?! National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major ...

Time travel has shifted from pure fantasy to a serious, if highly constrained, topic in modern physics. The equations that describe gravity, quantum fields and the structure of spacetime now allow ...

A question of fun: The physics behind velocity, inertia and gravity are different in the digital world, and for good reason. At this point in time, mimicking the way things work in real life right ...