Soft spheres like these may be useful in space exploration, inspecting pipes or exploring cave systems. “When we first saw it happening, we were frankly in disbelief,” mechanical and mechatronics ...

"Opposites charges attract; like charges repel" is a long-held fundamental principle of physics that you might have heard at school, but your teacher may have been wrong. Researchers from the ...

An independent institute for research into theoretical physics is being set up in Waterloo, Ontario, thanks to the generosity of a Greek immigrant who made his fortune through creating a high-tech ...

A machine-learning AI can solve physics problems by simplifying them to be more symmetric. “There are many, many cases in the history of science where people thought things were more complicated than ...

THESE problems are simple numerical exercises, mostly of an elementary character, on hydrostatics, “tenacity and elasticity,” statics and dynamics (including gravitation and pendulums), light, sound, ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo are claiming to have made a breakthrough in physics that challenges our basic understanding of the world around us. The successful study showed researchers ...

Physics is the science that quantifies reality. Its influence extends to all the natural sciences, including biophysics, astronomy, and chemistry. Physics classifies all interactions between matter ...

There is a new standard in town, and it's sort of a big deal. This new standard is the definition of the kilogram, the unit of mass in the SI system—the International System of Units). It replaces the ...