At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

As I was sitting in my physics lecture, fighting a losing battle against my attention span, the professor said something that caught my attention, “When you solve these problems, start by taking ...

Neely Myers, Executive Director for the Schroeder Family Exploreum brings two athletes from the Joplin Eagles Football team to demonstrate the power of friction. 26,706 people played the daily ...

MIT scientists have coaxed atoms into an exotic “edge state” for the first time, allowing them to flow completely friction-free. The breakthrough could lead to better superconductor materials. As ...

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum ...