Einstein’s strangest optical illusion has been captured—thanks to lasers, a cube, and a bit of artistic inspiration.

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In this edition of Play Smart, we look at a video that shows how much speed can affect the line on your putts.

“Suddenly, order emerges from chaos,” explained Alberto Comoretto, the study’s first author and a researcher at the ...

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The triangle is a small instrument made of a metal rod bent into a triangle shape that is open at one corner. While small, ...

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This is a significant step toward developing advanced detectors for future particle physics experiments ... networks and astronomy experiments. For example, researchers at JPL -- who are among ...

At temperatures of about 100 million degrees, different kinds of turbulence arise within the plasma, and physics ... For example, our algorithm identified the Lorentz symmetry, which has to do with ...