This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Pat Hanrahan, who studied nuclear engineering and biophysics before becoming a founding employee of Pixar Animation Studios. As well as ...

Theoretical physics often involves problems that do not have a simple mathematical solution. This quandary is usually overcome using numerical calculations performed by conventional (classical) ...

The infant universe transforms from a featureless landscape to an intricate web in a new supercomputer simulation of the cosmos’s formative years. An animation from the simulation shows our universe ...

Delivering optimal return on investment (ROI) requires innovative approaches to streamline development, reduce costs, and accelerate deployment. Advanced physics-based simulation has emerged as a game ...

Ground motion visualisation animations showing the very long-period seismic wave propagating around the globe. The left panel shows a ground motion visualisation, showing the seismic wave from the ...

The continuous scaling of transistors in the last half of century has been the driving force for electronics. The channel length of the transistors in production today is below 100nm. A wide variety ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals, and now dueling teams of researchers are claiming they finally have the ...