The equations used to describe flowing water also explain how atmospheres move and even how stars orbit inside galaxies. This video shows how fluid mechanics scales from rivers on Earth to the ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

After the applied mathematician Peter Shor, then at Bell Labs in New Jersey, showed that a quantum algorithm could, in theory, factor numbers faster than a classical computer multiple proposals for ...

Anyone who has dared to make the South Indian classic, dosa, knows that it takes rare kind of precision to make the perfect one. Right from the soaking of rice and dal, to maintaining the correct ...

A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...