Unorthodox though it is, his work has been highly impactful and widely celebrated: Nagel won the 1999 Oliver E. Buckley Prize ...

Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine particle ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Engineers have harnessed the physics behind the flailing tube men to power a tiny soft “ robot ” capable of walking, hopping, ...

Dutch scientists have created one of the fastest soft robots ever. The post Revolutionary robot that ‘thinks’ with its legs ...

If you quickly move a camera from object to object, the abrupt shift between the two points causes a motion smear that might ...

Humans began creating alloys about 5,000 years ago by combining copper and tin to produce bronze. Since then, alloy design ...

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

One of the big ideas in physics is that forces change the motion of an object. If you apply a constant, continuous force to ...

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 ...

Their findings, published on April 8 in Physics of Fluids, explore how fluid dynamics can be used to boost coffee extraction, so that fewer grounds still produce a flavorful cup. A high-speed camera ...