Get ready to crank, spin and fly into the mind of the world’s greatest inventor at “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion” at ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly ...

University of Illinois researchers can now explain the physical mechanisms behind click beetles’ clicking maneuver. Belonging to the Elateroidea family, a click beetle (or snapping beetle) is ...

According to quantum mechanics, a harmonic oscillator can never be completely at rest. Even in the ground state, its position will always have fluctuations, called the zero-point motion. Although the ...

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By ...

You can’t divide the indivisible, unless you use quantum mechanics. Physicists have now turned to quantum effects to split phonons, the smallest bits of sound, researchers report in the June 9 Science ...

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Researchers have discovered a low-energy way to recycle Teflon® by using mechanical motion and sodium metal. The process turns the notoriously durable plastic into sodium fluoride that can be reused ...

How do skateboarders seemingly defy gravity? How do gymnasts flip in the air? They have skill — and, as a Times interactive explored, an understanding of the laws of motion, physics and energy. By ...