In an experiment that puts the good old-fashioned egg drop to shame, European physicists dropped a small blob of ultracold atoms down a 146-meter-tall shaft. The result: no yolk on their face. In the ...

Take a pencil, stretch out your arm, and let go. We all know that the pencil will fall. OK, but what about dropping a bowling ball? Is that the same thing? No wait! How about a watermelon dropped off ...

The humble smiley face emoticon, now a staple of online communication, owes its origin to a physics joke that didn't hit ...

Take off: free-falling atoms were tested in this 'zero-G' aircraft operated by Novespace. (Courtesy: Novespace) “Weightless” experiments that compare the gravitational acceleration of two different ...

You have to see it to believe it: Slinkies look crazy not just tumbling down stairs but in free fall. In a new video, YouTube's favorite Slow Mo Guys capture the puzzling dynamics of the iconic toy at ...