What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

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Wax is made of carbon and hydrogen atoms bonded together in long chains. The chains are tangled, intertwined, and packed together to make the wax. Water molecules are packed more closely together than ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists in the Harvard John A.

Vibration plates are everywhere right now, so much so that their prevalence was the butt of a joke in a Saturday Night Live sketch this season. Ultimately, these wobbly boards may provide some ...

In the velvet darkness of our solar system, a mysterious traveller is currently making its grand exit, leaving a trail of scientific intrigue and whispered theories of 'extraterrestrial' technology in ...