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Foothill College physics instructors Frank Cascarano and David Marasco are gearing up to create fire using mirrors, drop eggs ...

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Manfred Steiner had a successful and productive career as a doctor, helping generations of medical students learn about hematology. But all along, he had a nagging feeling he should be doing something ...

The renowned cosmologist wants to make the ideas of modern physics accessible to anyone who’s willing to do a bit of extra thinking. The following is an excerpt from The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: ...

The art of conversation may be dead, but you wouldn’t know it from the attention being paid to ChatGPT. It’s not a person with sparkling repartee, but a chatbot that accesses a terabyte-sized database ...

Surely the Greeks weren't the first to ponder the nature of the universe. Just think about it. Aristotle and his friends were having discussions about physics in the 350 BC time frame. But beer and ...