According to legend, Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, researchers ...

I had an interesting thought, spurred on by a discussion I ran across online about firing guns in space. Apparently, smokeless powder contains its own oxidizer and so you could shoot normal firearms ...

Caltech engineer Mory Gharib was poring over the digitized notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci one day, looking for sketches of flow visualization to share with his graduate students for inspiration.

AT the Newcastle meeting of the British Association, a discussion on geophysics was held by Section A (Mathematics and Physics), under the chairmanship of Sir Harold Spencer Jones. Mr. B. C. Browne ...