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

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic symmetry can cancel energy loss.

The new levitating rotor works because of its rotational symmetry. Unlike plates that move up and down in varying magnetic fields, the spinning rotor stays within a constant magnetic flux. This ...

This video explores how mastering the circular motion of the golf swing leads to consistent, repeatable ball striking. It ...

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

Short pulses of light that impart rotation on a material's atoms can be used to switch a property called ferroaxiality, which ...

Google’s design team in Japan seems to be on a roll. They have more dial-based devices in mind, including keyboards for DJs, pets, and even Daikagura performers, Japan’s traditional juggling ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) report that an exotic quantum phenomenon appears under conditions where it would not normally ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...