Our spatial sense doesn’t extend beyond the familiar three dimensions, but that doesn’t stop scientists from playing with whatever lies...
Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying the ball’s surface is part of that...
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Scientists and government representatives meeting at a conference in France voted on Friday to scrap leap seconds by 2035, the...
Centipedes are known for their wiggly walk. With tens to hundreds of legs, they can traverse any terrain without stopping....
New work by SFI’s Collective Computation Group (C4) finds that human conflict exhibits remarkable regularity despite substantial geographic and cultural...
The forces between particles, atoms, molecules, or even macroscopic objects like magnets are determined by the interactions of nature. For...
A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger...
Winter is coming to an end; the last nights of below zero temperatures are here. In the morning, one still...
When you twist open an Oreo cookie to get to the creamy center, you’re mimicking a standard test in rheology—the...
Take a lattice—a flat section of a grid of uniform cells, like a window screen or a honeycomb—and lay another,...
A new paper sheds light on the nature of atomic nuclei. The study is published in the journal Physical Review...