Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

It's the 18th hole and the game's on the line. You line up your putt, take a breath, and roll the ball toward the hole. The ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

The new Philips Hue Bridge Pro can make your existing Hue lights motion-aware. It works, but not quite how I thought it would ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

If you were able to visualize the passage of time, it may appear as looping ribbons of color, these fragments ribboning and ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics ...

Host Ira Flatow will be joined by award-winning physicist Dr. Sean M. Carroll to discuss his book, “The Biggest Ideas in the ...