Several years back, I had the pleasure of watching Dan Cobley’s TED Talk, “What physics taught me about marketing.” In this talk, Cobley illustrates how physics and the scientific method can be ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — This week's science lesson is all about Newton's first law of motion and how it relates to football. Given that the Super Bowl is just a few days away, it's a great opportunity to ...

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...

A ripe apple falling from a tree has inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate a theory that describes the motion of objects subject to a force. Newton's equations of motion tell us that a moving body ...

A team of New York University researchers announced in early February 2026 that they had created “levitating” time crystals, ...

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We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,093,882-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Dean Drive What it’s about: Newton’s Third Law Of Motion states that for every action, there is ...