Tagged With Physics

EA made a series of videos meant to showcase its 'next-gen' video games, and the results are accidentally horrifying

Ben Gilbert

MIT researchers discovered a way to move objects as heavy as a great white shark with your bare hands. Take a look.

Aria Bendix

The Hubble telescope spotted an asteroid that has grown two tails — and scientists think it's ripping itself to pieces

Dave Mosher

The first day of spring is finally here — for about 90% of us. Here's why equinoxes mark the changing of seasons.

Dave Mosher

Earth's air supply may reach nearly 400,000 miles into space — so far that the moon constantly flies through it

Dave Mosher

Elon Musk says SpaceX is developing a 'bleeding' heavy-metal rocket ship. Making it work may be 100 times as hard as NASA's most difficult Mars mission

Dave Mosher

A 'ridiculous' yet simple animation by a NASA scientist shows how long it takes light to reach Pluto. If you plan to watch it, take a day off work.

Dave Mosher

The world's oldest Nobel Prize winner, a 96-year-old physicist, says his new invention will give everyone in the world clean, cheap energy

Hilary Brueck

The speed of light is tortuously slow, and these 3 simple animations by a scientist at NASA prove it

Dave Mosher

NASA's deep-space nuclear-power crisis may soon end, thanks to a clever new robot in Tennessee

Dave Mosher

A city in China wants to launch an artificial moon into orbit by 2020 — here's what would happen if Earth really did have two moons

Gina Echevarria, Shira Polan

There is a 'dark side' of the moon, but you are probably using the term incorrectly all of the time

Dave Mosher

The December solstice is here. Here's how it works and why it starts winter and summer at the same time.

Dave Mosher, Shayanne Gal

The worst storms on Earth are nothing compared to the weather on other planets

Gina Echevarria, Rebecca Wilkin

How cats can survive falling 32 stories high with limited injuries

Uma Sharma, Shira Polan

A 'mind-boggling' telescope find has revealed the point of no return for our galaxy's monster black hole

Dave Mosher

Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis about the origins of the universe will soon be up for auction — and so will his wheelchair

Peter Kotecki

Here's how scientists accelerate particles to 99.99% the speed of light

Ali Sundermier

Wikipedia rejected an entry on a physics Nobel laureate right up until she won, saying she wasn't famous enough

Sinéad Baker

Scientists spent nearly three years figuring out how to snap a piece of dry spaghetti into two pieces

Peter Farquhar