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What % Physicist Are You?

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Prove that you know the language of the physical world. Does your understanding of natural phenomena start or stop at E=MC^2? Find out what it takes to think like the physics lords who came before us!

How Antimatter Spacecraft Will Work

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Antimatter has the ability to store incredible amounts of energy in a very small space. See how it will work.

5 Trailblazing Female Mathematicians

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Can you name even one female mathematician? Don't worry if you can't. That just means you need to read our article on five famous female mathematicians to up your cred.

10 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Hawking

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He was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. He never won a Nobel Prize, although he was awarded a guest spot on "The Simpsons." What else do you know (or not know) about this acclaimed physicist?

How the Large Hadron Collider Works

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To understand the universe better, scientists from all over the world are going to harness the power of an enormous machine -- the Large Hadron Collider.

What is string theory?

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String theory tries to bring relativity and quantum physics into one general theory of everything. Learn about string theory in this article.

Scientists Prove Schrodinger's Cat Can Be in Two Places at Once

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A bunch of Yale physicists decided to give Schrodinger's cat not one but two boxes. And that, strangely enough, could eventually prove handy for quantum computing.

How Quantum Suicide Works

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A man has a gun. But this is no ordinary man, and this is no ordinary gun. This isn't a setup for a sci-fi thriller. It's the premise for quantum suicide.

The World Wide Web Turns 30!

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The World Wide Web turns 30. HowStuffWorks looks at its humble beginnings.

Time May Not Exist, Say Some Physicists and Philosophers

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The answer to the question "Does time exist?" may seem obvious, but is it? And what if time doesn't exist, but is merely a human construct?

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