The Big Bang theory says our universe was created when a tiny mass (billions X smaller than a proton) exploded and began expanding very rapidly into the stars and galaxies of today.
Marie Curie's contribution to physics was immense, not only in her own work, the importance of which was demonstrated by her Nobel Prizes, but because of her influence on future generations of nuclear physicists and chemists.
The births of Marie's two daughters, Irene and Eve, in 1897 and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work. She was appointed lecturer in physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure for girls in Sevresi France (1900).
Based on the results of this research, Marie Curie received her Doctorate of Science, and in 1903 Marie and Pierre shared with Becquerel the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
With her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, and was then sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
Einstein's greatest contributions to physics were his synthesis of mechanics and electrodynamics through his relativity theory, and his challenge to Newtonian physics through his quantum theory.
Two Russian-born scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics for groundbreaking experiments with a carbon that is vital for faster computers and transparent touch screens.
Ball lightning -- a small, charged sphere that floats, glows, and bounces along oblivious to the laws of gravity or physics -- still puzzles scientists.