In this video, I walk you through a super fun and simple balloon rocket experiment that you can set up in any classroom or at ...

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Most of our members enjoyed it, even if the sheer volume of ideas in the book made it a challenging read ...

The open-source Newton Physics Engine — codeveloped with Google DeepMind and Disney Research, and now available in NVIDIA ...

When archaeology meets physics, new depths are revealed A technological breakthrough at Tel Aviv University offers ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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