physical science

Did you feel that? Gravity just got a little weaker. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has just posted...

Of all the things in the physical world we think we know a lot about, water is definitely among them....

Today in the Things We Thought We Understood But Really Don’t file, a Northwestern University researcher has upended what was...

Defying intuition, dense enough materials can reach terminal velocity within granular solid media.

Hydrophobic materials have all kinds of practical applications, from creating surfaces that never have to be cleaned to making supertankers...

In a breakthrough so hot it’s cool, Spanish researchers have figured out how to make water freeze at room temperature....

Leaping tall buildings, punching through solid concrete walls and using public phone booths as ersatz changing rooms without anyone noticing...