SciFri Radio: General Physics

SciFri Radio: Colliding Planets (Don't Panic)
New research finds a small -- but present -- chance of a collision between Earth and one of its planetary neighbors in the next few billion years.

SciFri Radio: Newton and the Counterfeiter
Isaac Newton is known as one of the world's greatest scientists, developing the three laws that define the way motion works. But did you know that...

SciFri Radio: Learning Facts vs Learning to Reason
How connected are learning scientific facts and learning to reason scientifically?

SciFri Videos: General Physics

Video: Mildred Dresselhaus
On March 16, 2007, Ira spoke with Mildred Dresselhaus, a prominent physicist who has focused her research on nanotechnology. She has also worked to...

Video: Physics of Basketball
Lots of fun with hoops and balls and stuff. How does physics impact your game? John Fontanella, a physicist at the U.S. Naval Academy and author of...

Video: Water Balloons in Space
About ten years ago, two scientists had a little extra time on board NASA's low gravity aircraft and came up with the idea of popping water...

Video: Dive Into The Physics of Splashing
Everybody knows that when a stone is dropped in water, a jet of water shoots up. Physicists Detlef Lohse, from the University of Twente in The...

Video: Patterns Written By Sound
Shake a metal plate covered in sand at certain frequencies and mysterious patterns appear. The demonstration, published in 1787 by Ernst Chladni,...

SciFri Newsbriefs: General Physics

Newsbrief: Gravity Anomaly Solved
The gravitational pull near Hudson Bay, Canada is unusually weak. A new study explains why.

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