For over a century, the world’s greatest minds could map the heavens, but not weigh the Earth. Newton’s theory had a missing ...

Stanton quickly replaces the copper block with a wire coil, allowing the current to flow through it instead of generating ...

It traces back to the unraveling of American exceptionalism—the belief that the United States possessed a unique moral ...

In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to compare the differences in wheel/rail friction temperature under traction and braking, for further analysis of the distinction of adhesion performance under ...

Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why. The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It ...

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The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

In physics, breakthroughs are rare. Experiments are slow, expensive and often end up refining, rather than rewriting, our understanding of the universe. But what if the only constraint on scientific ...

Last week, the benevolent folks in Puscifer deigned it necessary to not only share the fact that they’ve got a new album titled Normal Isn’t coming out early next year, but they shared some new tunes.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Seven students were hospitalized after a science experiment Thursday at a CPS elementary school on the city's Northwest Side, sources said. The incident happened at José de Diego ...