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We need one more thing—how about Newton’s second law? This says the acceleration depends on the net force (Fnet) and…

The design of the official ball of the 2026 World Cup could become a determining factor in the scores of…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers…

Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic voids—vast regions…

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve…

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from…

During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world’s very first test of an…

The “Golden Age of Radio” supposedly ended in the ’50s, with the advent of television. But guess what? TV shows…

Let’s use our car again, but this time we’ll get real numbers from the accelerometer in our smartphone. Say we…

Get it? So a spinning loop produces an oscillating flux; if you graphed its values it would trace out a…

The second difference is the equal sign instead of less-than-or-equal. This means the frictional force is constant as long as…

Olympic bobsledding often gets called the “Formula 1 of ice.” Tracks are more than 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) long,…

A recent example was published in 2025 by researchers at the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility near Hamburg, among other…

In figure skating, the quadruple axel is generally considered the most difficult jump. Until 2022, when US skater Ilia Malinin—currently…

A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence that two ancient, continent-sized, ultrahot structures hidden beneath the…

I don’t know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a carved-out ice bowl…