Heezen, B. C., “Paleomagnetism, Continental Displacements and the Origin of Submarine Topography”, International Oceanographic Congress Preprints, 26 (Amer. Assoc ...

A new crew of potential ripples in spacetime has just debuted — emphasis on the word “potential.” By loosening the criteria for what qualifies as evidence for gravitational waves, physicists ...

I was recently re-watching a MythBusters episode and I found something I had wanted to explore previously (but accidentally deleted the episode). Here is a short clip ...

Energy Vault, maker of the EVx gravitational energy storage tower, has secured $100 million in series C funding. The investment was led by Prime Movers Lab, with additional participation from SoftBank ...

THE 21-cm. hyperfine emission from the neutral hydrogen atom has an exceedingly narrow natural width, corresponding to a transition probability of 2.84 × 10 −15 sec. −1. Consequently, in principle, ...

Traditional deployable systems—relying on pneumatic pumps, electric motors, magnets, or manual assembly—often require bulky ...

Banner image: A pulsar ejecting a plume of energy. (Credit: NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.) Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from ...

It should be clear that our world runs on energy. Driving your car, washing your clothes, heating your house, and even running your computer (so you can read this post)—these things all require energy ...

How does a yo-yo work? asks a reader.Can you Hop the Fence, Milk the Cow, Ride the Horse, and then Walk the Dog -- without ever setting foot on a farm? If so, you're probably familiar with yo-yo ...