Centripetal and centrifugal forces are central to circular motion, but they're not the same. Discover the differences between the two often-confused forces.

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of our members enjoyed it, ...

A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule.

Physics is a natural science that, compared to others, is less popular among the general population, both adults & children. However, awareness of the presence of physics in every corner of our ...

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

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect -- a long-predicted phenomenon at ...

Fluid elasticity and the hydrodynamic force dipole play significant role in how pushers, pullers and neutral oscillating ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...