Physics is supposed to be predictable. Drop a ball, and gravity pulls it down. Heat water, and it boils. Light travels in straight lines. Yet throughout history, scientists have encountered ...

A recently discovered acoustic effect allows a hot gas to simulate the gravity-induced convection within a star or giant planet. On the rise. Signs of convection are seen in the motion of hot gas ...

The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience will, of necessity, be something of a distortion. The question ...