A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on the sole hold the key ...
Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the ...
Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...
Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around ...
Scientists have unveiled a glass–plastic hybrid that bends instead of shattering, upending long‑held assumptions about how ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters fight a fire on the grounds of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt. Boris Roessler/dpa A ...
All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the solar wind, high-energy particle transport, and galaxy formation. Small-scale ...
Alberta taxpayers paid more than $100 million in needless expenses while also enduring service disruptions including delays and lab work errors, according to a new auditor general report into the ...
Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Sir Peter Beck, said: “This past quarter we’ve once again delivered record revenue of $155m at record GAAP gross margin of 37%, and a new annual launch record is just days ...
A new study reports the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect – a long-hypothesized thermal effect that ties heat, electric current, and magnetic field into one neat result ...
More than 700,000 GCSE physics students could be without a specialist teacher, a report has warned. The Institute of Physics (IOP) has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 700,000 GCSE physics students could be without a specialist teacher, a report has warned. The Institute of Physics (IOP) ...