There are people who can do truly amazing and fascinating experiments, and luckily for you, we created a list of 10 simple physics experiments with everyday materials to learn and impress your friends ...

Everyone needs some “go to” demos. Personally, I like this one. It’s not too difficult to build and it’s easy to use. Take a large block of wood (it needs to have a good mass). I used a left over ...

Wouldn’t it be great to be the coolest mom on the block? Take a step closer to super mom status by doing some simple science projects with your kids this summer. If you’re dreading summer burnout, ...

Physicists once treated Einstein’s picture of a clockwork universe as the gold standard for what “reality” should look like, ...

If you’ve ever watched a flapping insect or hummingbird hover in place – often while engaged in other activities such as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. I spent several days in California last week (thus the lack of blogging ...

The movies play an incredibly important role in firing our imaginations about what's possible for humanity's future, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the realm of space travel. Over the past ...

A provocative new paper is proposing that complex intelligent behavior may emerge from a fundamentally simple physical process. The theory offers novel prescriptions for how to build an AI — but it ...

Both physical and economic phenomena may possess universal features that could be uncovered using the tools of physics. The principal difference is that in economic systems -- unlike physical ones -- ...