Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.

In Armenia, a small coalition of opposition parties, known as the Armenia Bloc, has nominated former president Robert Kocharyan to be its candidate for prime minister in the country’s upcoming ...

Claim To Fame, the celebrity guessing game that dares nepo babies to reveal themselves as a cancelable entity, came to a surprise end this evening. The winner, Gabriel Cannon, the brother of Nick ...

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Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying ...

Olympic ice is engineered to balance grip and glide. Here’s how physics, chemistry, and meticulous ice making shape the fastest sport on ice. American speed skater Erin Jackson competes in the women’s ...

During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through sports.

Practice projectile motion with fully solved physics problem examples. This video walks through step-by-step solutions to help you understand equations, motion components, and problem-solving ...

Learn how to calculate the speed of a mass in a circular pendulum with this clear physics tutorial! Step-by-step explanations make it easy to understand circular motion, energy, and angular velocity. ...

At their turn, curves of the obtained monthly reference relative frequency distributions are presented in Figure 1, while integrals of those distributions are exhibited in Figure 2. The authors are ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

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