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The Physics Question of the Week
Each week a new question will be posted and the answer for the previous Question of the Week will be shown. The questions involve real experimental physics, so part of the answers will be photographs ...
Answer to a question about thermal conductivity
A very specific area of the MadSci website, where a physicist responds to the question 'What causes different metals to conduct heat at different rates?'
Elementary Particles
One of the primary goals in modern physics is to answer the question 'What is the Universe made of?' Often that question reduces to 'What is matter and what holds it together?' This continues the ...
Why is the sky dark at night?
If you think the answer to this question is obvious, think again. The best minds of physics have studied this question for over a century, and the current answer may surprise you!
Ask-a-Scientist Archive
Argonne National Laboratory question and answer page.
Can the Earth's magnetic field dwindle away?
A Nasa answer to this interesting question.
Tea science
Does adding milk to tea affect how fast it cools? This is the question that this experiment tries to answer.
Curious About Astronomy?
A question and answer site with a good back catalogue of questions.
Ask us a sports question
What effect does the rim of a frisbee have on its flight? Find out here through a clear explanation and diagram.
A Question of Scale
From smaller than an atom to the size of the Universe in 41 steps. Pictures with descriptions at each level.



