particles of light break down to half of their former selves. These results, published today in Physical Review Letters, send cracks through a foundational pillar of modern physics—the theory of light ...

including some of the ways athletes apply what we know about physics to help them on their quest for gold. In archery, the feathers on the arrow, or fletching, cause air resistance, or drag ...

Physics, the ever amazing scientific field that is also the occasional party-pooper of Pop culture, has found Bard’s Black Arrow to be awfully lacking when it comes to killing Dragons.

A good skateboarder can skate up the side of a ramp, turn around and do the same on the other side – and continue to oscillate back and forth in the half-pipe. What’s obvious about the physics of this ...