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In particle physics, a magnetic monopole is a hypothetical elementary particle that is an isolated magnet with only one magnetic pole (a north pole without...

In astrophysics, spaghettification (sometimes referred to as the noodle effect) is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long...

Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg...

In physics, the wavefront of a time-varying wave field is the set (locus) of all points having the same phase. The term is generally meaningful only for...

The gravitational interaction of antimatter with matter or antimatter has been observed by physicists. As was the consensus among physicists previously...

A flux tube is a generally tube-like (cylindrical) region of space containing a magnetic field, B, such that the cylindrical sides of the tube are everywhere...

A diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is a solid-state laser made by pumping a solid gain medium, for example, a ruby or a neodymium-doped YAG crystal...

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) radio propagation occurs outside of the typical line-of-sight (LOS) between the transmitter and receiver, such as in ground reflections...

Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS (18 September 1854 – 15 December 1935) was an English physicist. Glazebrook was born in West Derby, Liverpool...

The Institute of Optics is a department and research center at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. The institute grants degrees at the...

Iron filings are very small pieces of iron that look like a powder with a dark-grey appearance. As the name suggests, iron filings can be obtained from...

Integral field spectrographs (IFS) combine spectrographic and imaging capabilities in the optical or infrared wavelength domains (0.32 μm – 24 μm) to get...

Sir Charles Drummond Ellis FRS (b. Hampstead, 11 August 1895; died Cookham 10 January 1980) was an English physicist and scientific administrator. His...

David Todd Wilkinson (May 13, 1935 – September 5, 2002) was an American cosmologist, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation...

Kenneth Myron Case (September 23, 1923 – February 1, 2006) was an American physicist and applied mathematician, best known for his use of the mathematical...

Robert Earl Hopkins (June 30, 1915 – July 4, 2009) was president of the Optical Society of America in 1973. Recognized as an expert in optical instrument...

In mathematics and particularly in topology, pairwise Stone space is a bitopological space ( X , τ 1 , τ 2 ) {\displaystyle \scriptstyle (X,\tau _{1},\tau...

The teapot effect, also known as dribbling, is a fluid dynamics phenomenon that occurs when a liquid being poured from a container runs down the spout...