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Physics & Math
Editors' Picks
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Julian the Trailblazer
Percy Julian’s example in the mid-20th century inspired dozens of black chemists to realize their dreams.
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Physics of Stone Arches
See if you can build a cathedral arch without it collapsing, and learn more about the forces at work.
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Cooking With Bill Nye
In this video, Bill Nye, TV's "Science Guy," conducts a pasta-making experiment that can save energy.
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A Conversation With Brian Greene
The physicist and best-selling author unravels the mysteries of string theory in this interview.
Physics & Math in the News
Links
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American Physical Society
www.aps.org
Learn how our world works according to physics, see a time line of major events, and more.
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Center for History of Physics
www.aip.org/history
Page through photographs and papers from some of the world's best-known physicists.
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American Mathematical Society
www.ams.org
Get involved with the society and learn what it means to be a mathematician.
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Einstein
www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein
Read about Einstein's life and ideas at this website from the American Museum of Natural History.
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CERN: The World's Largest Particle Physics Laboratory
public.web.cern.ch/public/welcome.html
See the latest from the European physics laboratory that houses the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
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The Particle Adventure
www.particleadventure.org
Explore the forces that hold the subatomic world together.
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Einstein Light – University of New South Wales
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight
Find out how the theory of relativity impacts our ideas of space, time, matter, and energy.
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Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
www.mathforum.org/isaac/mathhist.html
Stretch your mind and try to puzzle out some classic mathematical problems.
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American Cryptogram Association
cryptogram.org
Learn to make and break codes.
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Wolfram MathWorld
mathworld.wolfram.com
Spend time with this extensive resource and refresh your knowledge of mathematics.
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The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements
periodictable.com
Find information on every element in the periodic table, generate sortable graphs by element properties, see detailed photos, and more.
Books
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A Brief History of Time: The Illustrated, Updated, and Expanded Edition
by Stephen Hawking
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
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Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
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Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics
by Albert Einstein and John Stachel, editor
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E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis and Simon Singh
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit Mandelbrot
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Steven Weinberg
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter