When you look at a simple pendulum, have you ever wondered why the object at the end of the string (often known as a bob) swings back and...

In conventional science, crystals exhibit properties of infinitely tessellating patterns of particles, forming lattice looking frameworks...

Richard Feynman is a world renowned theoretical physicist, celebrated for his reworking of quantum electrodynamics and the development of...

Have you ever wondered how a string instrument can make different sounds when plucking different strings? Or how a singer could shatter a...

Figure 1: A Seesaw in Action  Imagine you and your friend sitting on a seesaw (Ref. Figure 1). Almost certainly, someone would be dragged...

The human eye, a masterpiece of biological engineering, is the gateway to our visual world. This intricate organ allows us to perceive...

Figure 1: Picture of a Boomerang Boomerangs are tools used by Aboriginal Australians in hunting and warfare. Boomerangs are also works of...

In continuation from “Basics of electric circuits 1”, We can now examine complex circuits that are either series circuit, parallel...

Imagine this: You leave Earth at age 15 in a spaceship traveling at the speed of light and spend 5 years in space. When you return to...

Your desk lamp, fridge, TV and all other electrical appliances require the flow of electrons within a circuit to actually function....

Have you ever wondered how animals who live in darkness are able to detect their surroundings? We know that for something to be seen,...

Have you ever wondered why the sun seems to change color as it dips below the horizon? It's a captivating phenomenon that has intrigued...

Time travel is a concept of much fascination, and is very prominent in a lot of sci-fi media. But is time travel merely a fantasy, or...

Gears are mechanical devices used to transfer rotational energy, motion, and torque between different shafts and axes. Gears are usually...

Nearly everything in this world is considered matter. Gazillions of particles bond together to form what we perceive as tangible and...

Have you ever wondered why a spinning ball curves after being thrown? This is due to a sidewise force, called the Magnus effect (named...

Have you ever heard the siren of an emergency vehicle going past you? If you have stopped to listen, you could hear that the sound of the...

Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig, two independent physicists, first proposed the idea of smaller constituent particles called quarks in...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published on November 25th, 1915. The theory, in simple terms, explains that gravity is not...

As a result of a supernova collapse, either a black hole or a neutron star is formed. This article focuses on neutron stars, specifically...