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Any woman will confirm the fact everybody knows, that white clothes make you look larger and black ones make you look slimmer.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research is starting new work under the programme “Future Circular Collider”.

Pearls have excited admiration since ancient times for the richness of their shades and the perfection of their shape.

For many years physicists in many countries have been working on a technique that would make it possible to run a thermonuclear reaction and at the same time to gain more energy than was spent on driving the process.

Thanks to recent advances, our refrigerators may work quite differently within a few years.

Have you ever wondered why older people need more time to remember something?

The heat given off by molten rock can be used as a highly efficient source of electricity.

Russian physicists have presented their new development to the public.

As the reserves of the traditional sources of energy shrink, the development of renewable sources has become a more important line of research.

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are working on a heat engine that consists of only one ion.

Scientists from Cambridge, led by Erwin Reisner, state that in only a couple of decades everyone will have their own mini power station in their flat, able to produce electrical energy and even fuel for a car out of only…

Electrons are elementary particles whose motion along conductors is the basis of electronics.

As is well known, the dynamic and acoustic characteristics of vehicles change under the influence of oncoming flows of air.

On 8 October 2013 in Stockholm, after long consideration and debate, the most prestigious international prize was awarded to François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist, and to his British colleague Peter Higgs.

Mikhail Lukin, professor of physics at Harvard University, and Vladan Vuletić, his colleague from Serbia and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have in a unique experiment managed to make …

SustainX, the world's leading supplier of energy stores, has brought into service a new large-scale project with no equivalent anywhere in the world.

At present researchers have detected more than four hundred planets going round other stars, but modern technology does not yet make it possible to study the surface of a planet and the processes going on there.

In the course of the research the scientists first grew silicon nanorods on a special drum.

The following techniques are gathered in the section on quick arithmetic: - simplifying addition and subtraction - simplifying multiplication and division - methods that take account of the particular features of numbers…

In the "Biophysics" section 16 interesting lectures have been added!

At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA, construction has been completed of the world's most powerful laser – the National Ignition Facility. $3.5 billion was spent on the needs of the project, and build…

Preparing for the Unified State Examination will now be easier!

A new section has appeared on the site - "Computer programs for physics" - in which small programs can be downloaded that make physics calculations easier.

The "Quick mental arithmetic" block holds a great many techniques that will let you learn to count in your head faster and more accurately.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics are the most absorbing lectures in physics: told in "human" language, they will make you love physics even more.