Physics

The Milky Way is our "home" galaxy but how much do we really know about it? Thanks to a phenomenon known as "dust extinctions," space is pretty hard to observe even with our best telescopes. With [...]

What if you could cure cancer with gold? Yes, gold. But not just any gold... vibrating nanoparticles of gold. Sounds totally bizarre, but it's a real thing. This lesson has hands-on lab that [...]

What if we told you this lesson was about planets outside our solar system passing gas? But don't worry, it's *physics* gas! Students will learn a lot, we promise.

What happens when a planet forms near a black hole? That's what a bunch of researchers wanted to know. And it turns out that it's not too unlike a scene in the old movie Spaceballs where the [...]

What do we do about the microscopic particle of all-things-bad coronavirus? Well, to quote Matt Damon in The Martian: We’re going to have to science the *bleep* out of this. And it's never been [...]

Remember when our solar system had nine planets? (If you don't, please don't tell me because it reminds me of how old I am). Well, not satisfied with eight planets, some astronomers have been [...]

When I think space stuff, I think solid, steady masses moving in organized orbits and rotations. But it turns out, they wobble! Isn't that kind of cute to think of a wobbling planet? Just me? [...]

The vastness of space can boggle the mind, but when it comes down to it, the same forces that determine what happens when you drop an apple in the lunch line also determine how galaxies form and [...]

When you think Galápagos, you probably think about biology (and with good reason), but as BiteScis co-founder Shannon Morey explains in this lesson, physics provides the key to understanding how [...]

Space is big. (duh). So big that getting anywhere close to even our solar system's nearest neighbors seems impossible. But what if we told you that you that researchers have a plan to make [...]