Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

Originally built at UW–Madison and developed further through collaboration with researchers in Italy, Chrono is an open-source physics simulator that is highly ... results and actual tests done at the ...

A new study reveals that Mars’ dust devils race across the planet at speeds up to 160 km/h, far exceeding earlier estimates.

Many of the world's most important systems, such as the atmosphere, turbulent fluids, and even the motion of planets, behave ...

Advances in linear motors and hybrid actuators are pushing motion systems toward higher precision, speed and efficiency. A ...

A water-powered nanogenerator uses droplet formation to convert flowing water into electricity, providing a clean, ...

Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), a remarkable manifestation of quantum mechanics in systems with many particles, has over the past century reshaped our understanding of the fundamental phases of ...

Blur benefit: Images on the left were taken by a camera that was moving during exposure. Images on the right used the researchers’ algorithm to increase their resolution with information captured by ...

Pressure is a measure of how concentrated a force is. The amount of pressure exerted on an object depends on the force applied and the surface area it is spread over. Force diagrams and resultant ...

On Tuesday 7 October the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced. The process of choosing the winners is highly secretive, so looking for hints about who will be this year’s ...

It is not only moving objects that have varying speed. The speed of the wind and the speed of sound also vary. A typical value for the wind is about 12 m/s and the speed of sound in air is about 330 m ...