Our readers agree that the world would be a very different place if water displayed no surface tension, making life on Earth ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

A high-speed camera films a robotic hula hooper with an hourglass shape, which helps the hoop stay up. Credit: NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory Successful hula hooping requires a body type with ...

Philanthropy backs bold science as federal funds shrink. Schmidt Polymaths support Saad Bhamla’s work on biomechanics of everyday organisms from ripple bugs to flamingos.

We also prove that the two sets of Maxwell equations only depend on the non-linear elations of the conformal group of ...

IN OUR communities, fathers were off working double shifts, saving for school shoes and the light bill. Which left the mothers in charge. And make no mistake, these women didn’t need bodyguards or ...

Your dishwasher’s “heated dry” function eats electricity like a teenager demolishes leftovers. This single setting consumes 700 to 1,000 watts per cycle-enough power to run a microwave while you’re ...

Tsetse flies are the sole cyclical vector of African trypanosomes (AT) in sub-Sahara Africa. These Trypanosoma parasites cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle. Vector dissections are ...

A simple schematic illustrates a sample of rock undergoing a lab quake experiment, which releases energy in three forms: fracturing and comminution (reduction in grain size); frictional heating; and ...