Robots are often limited by how they move. Wheels struggle with obstacles, legs require complex joints and control, and ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists in the Harvard John A.

Discover the fascinating physics behind contactless lifting where forces like magnetism, air pressure, and acoustic levitation do the heavy work with no touch at all. This mind-bending demonstration ...

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers to detect even the smallest movements of a laser beam with extreme sensitivity. (Nanowerk News) Precisely measuring ...

Lenz’s Law is one of those physics tricks that look like magic if you don’t understand what’s happening. [Seth Robinson] was inspired by the way eddy currents cause a cylindrical neodymium magnet to ...

Breaking the bottom out of a glass bottle by hitting the top is a challenging trick, but involves a ton of physics. The explanation is related to cavitation - a process seen in the Mantis Shrimp ...