For over a decade, confusion over the size of the proton has held scientists back. Disagreeing measurements of the subatomic particle’s radius meant that scientists couldn’t test one of their key ...

Long before he earned the nickname the “Quad God,” U.S. men’s figure skating champion and gold medalist Ilia Malinin was part of a University of Delaware biomechanics study that measured jumping ...

The icy ballet of stone upon ice makes curling one of the most intriguing sports of the Winter Olympics. But scientists still haven't quite figured out the physics of how they move. For a sport that ...

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Watching a ski jumper fly through the air might get you wondering, "How do they do that?" The answer is: physics! That's why this episode, we have two physicists – Amy Pope, a physicist from Clemson ...

Free-electron lasers generate intense, femtosecond and sub-nanometre wavelength pulses. Incorporating such X-ray light into transient grating spectroscopy reveals electron dynamics at the nanometre ...