Carter Minshull’s love of gaming from a young age has led him down an unlikely journey. His excellence in academics, especially his physics studies, brought him to the University of Waterloo. Yet, his ...

Analysis of a cooling station for semiconductor wafers illustrates the utility of COSMOS multi-physics in the design process. The analysis covers three goals: • reduce the temperature of eighteen hot ...

In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast you will hear from scientists and software engineers at the vanguard of developing free and open-source software for physics research. Guests talk ...

San Francisco (February 20, 2008) -- Havok, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the games and movie industries, today announced that the company will offer ...

Compatible and sustainable software could revolutionize high-energy physics research. The World Wide Web may have been invented at CERN, but it was raised and cultivated abroad. Now a group of Large ...

Semiconductors—substances that can selectively conduct or block electricity—have been dubbed the “brains of modern electronics.” They form the building blocks of the chips that power electronic ...

Open-source software has been critical to the famous image of a black hole – but also for many other areas of physics besides Picture of success: The importance of open-source software to physics.