Sailing upwind seems impossible, yet it shaped exploration, trade, and naval power for centuries. This breaks down the physics of lift, hull resistance, keels, and tacking to show how sailors learned ...

A team at Heidelberg University's Institute for Theoretical Physics, led by Professor Richard Schmidt, unified opposing ...

The first part of the course includes six units, Physical World and Measurement, Kinematics, Laws of Motion, Work, Energy and ...

Cicadas don’t excrete urine in droplets like most small insects. Instead, they produce powerful jets of fluid, a behavior ...

US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI ...

As we journey from Newton's laws of gravity to Einstein's groundbreaking theory of relativity, and delve into the enigmatic ...

How many electrons are there in the Universe? One bold theory suggests that there could only be one, although this theory has ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair ...

The international team of astronomers reports that all of the types of ice in the comet appear to be sublimating. This is the phase change where a solid turns into a gas, skipping the liquid phase.

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...