Everyone loves perpetual motion machines. They are a representation of the highest level of creativity in finding loopholes in the laws of physics. Let's take a look at this one. What is a perpetual ...

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“Our results are especially interesting for applications where one wants high resolution over a relatively large field of view,” Zia says. “This is important at many scales from microscopy to ...

The ancient people of Rapa Nui likely used ropes to rock the giant statues in an upright, zig-zag motion along specially designed, concave roads. This method is said to be both energy-efficient and ...

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Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a second-story window. If a cat is simply a mechanical system ...

The University of Sydney researchers at the PET scanner: (left to right) first author Andre Kyme, Roger Fulton and Steven Meikle. Understanding how the brain responds to a changing environment ...

Alicja Kwade's TonSteineScherben features cobblestones, representative of violent May Day clashes, that have been thrown against the wall, broken to pieces and collected in a pile on the floor.(Dallas ...