Researchers have started to unravel the mysteries of how near-horizontal bowling in cricket leads to such tough-to-hit balls. The team employed a wake survey rake device made of multiple tubes ...

Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin.

Researchers have settled a physics riddle that persisted for more than a century: what happens when a lawn sprinkler sucks ...

We tend to think of melting as a relatively straightforward process – a solid material's gradual slide towards liquid entropy ...

On 1 February 2003, NASA’s space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew ...

When it eventually happens, a murder in space will be unlike any that has taken place on Earth. So how do you investigate an ...

Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

Intensity-Dependent Memory Erasure: Under low rocking amplitudes, directional memory remains intact. As rocking intensity ...

Physicists found that small particles suspended in a thick liquid can remember both the direction and strength of stirring, ...

Europa ice shell barrier: new research shows water rising through Europa's ice fractures forms frazil ice within hours, ...

Dozens of students packed the labs and classrooms at WVU Tech for a week-long investigation of science and engineering. More than 50 students attended the Health Sciences and Technology ...

A less-lethal weapon is engineered to stop at the skin, and a pellet is engineered to go through it. Here is the physics of ...