Simple Machines Made Simple,’ which raised more than seven times its target on Kickstarter, wants to demystify mechanical ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and John M.

Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

The speed of light isn’t just a number — it’s the foundation of reality. But new research into how light behaves across space ...

If the atmosphere were not dragged with our planet, you could utilize the insane relative wind speeds to decrease flight time ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Visiting Professor John Eric Goff studies the physics behind your favorite sports. His athletic tests are more vital than you may think.

There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

As a kid, did you ever play that game Guess Who? If you haven't, it's actually kinda fun. You have two players, each with a board in front of them. On the board are a bunch of flip cards with ...

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly more complicated car (or a Winnebago in Spaceballs). And George Lucas gave us those galactic battles ...

NPL is coordinating a broad-scope UK research initiative on performance metrics and benchmarking for quantum computers ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, long after his passing. Reading time: Reading time 5 minutes Albert ...