A team at Yamaguchi University in Japan has identified a mechanical property of the feline spine that helps explain how cats can rotate midair to land on their feet. Their peer-reviewed study, ...

Some numbers are useful. Some are famous. And then there is pi, a number so absurdly powerful that humanity has spent ...

Tom Stanton focuses on building and testing various flying machines and other engineering feats. Colin Furze is known for his over-the-top, often dangerous, and always entertaining DIY projects.

The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...

The research continues, with a paper published in the journal The Anatomical Record reporting on new experiments to analyze the flexibility of feline spines. Over the centuries, scientists have ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

A new University of Mississippi study shows that some sound waves don't just move forward—they also move slightly to the side. Understanding this movement could help researchers develop more precise ...

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth's rotation. Researchers from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now show that the current increase in day length—1.33 ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

New high-resolution simulations reveal that stellar rotation plays a crucial role in transporting material inside red giant stars.