CHICO — What goes up, must come down. The sounds of at least 400 children counting down to see pumpkins falling from the sky reverberated Thursday from Trinity Commons at Chico State as the children ...

An application that can tap into a smartphone’s built-in barometer can be a helpful tool for teaching students about Stevin’s ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who heads a group studying quantum gravity in Southern France. And if that is not impressive enough, he has written a best-seller called "Seven Brief ...

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For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth curvature of spacetime, the other the jittery statistics of particles and ...

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical. Isaac Newton was never entirely happy with his ...