Why does light choose the path it does when crossing between media? 🌈 This video presents a clear max–min derivation of Snell’s Law from Fermat’s Principle, showing how extremizing travel time leads ...

Fragmentation, or how things break, may seem like a truly random process, but new study shows that fragmentation will actually follow a process to maximize entropy. This behavior is a manifestation of ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

In a move set to impact how companies decide to make securities disclosures, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of a flexible interpretation of “material change,” a concept that triggers ...

A Wisconsin bill seeks to legally define antisemitism using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition. Opponents argue the bill could infringe on First Amendment rights to ...

California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from what’s projected to be over 1 billion meals ...

Since the Generalized Snell's Law (GSL) was proposed, planar metasurfaces have achieved remarkable progress in optical and electromagnetic wavefront manipulation by leveraging phase gradients. The ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Graphene is stronger than steel ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A plan to expand the legal definition of stalking in state statute has become law in Illinois. Sponsors said this law can help victims obtain a stalking no-contact order ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law that redefines bicycles. The law lays out new language that includes e-bikes. SPRINGFIELD — It's a bird, it's a plane...it's a bike. A newly signed law in ...