It may look like athletes in bobsled, luge and skeleton simply grab a sled and hang on until the bottom, but high-speed physics and tiny motions mean the difference between gold and a crash.
It used to be spit balls, but now sticky baseballs are giving pitchers an advantage.
Tage Olsin
Pitchers in Major League Baseball have been striking out more batters than ever, and some people say it’s because they’re adding sticky stuff to the balls.
The distance between the ISS and Earth is the same as about 3,850 football fields. To bring the station down, rockets will lower it a bit, and then gravity will send it crashing the rest of the way.
A lot of of chemistry and physics are behind how you perceive a sip of wine.
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High speeds, the threat of dangerous crashes, the excitement of the crowd – and the laws of physics on full display. A physicist explains the science of NASCAR.
Leonardo da Vinci’s experiments with friction underpinned the modern science of Tribology.
Take two phone books and lie them face up, with the spines facing away from each other. Then interleave the pages and try to pull the books apart. You will fail.
While visiting and enjoying the architecture of the Forbidden City in China, three researchers wondered how large rocks weighing many hundreds of tons were transported to the site more than 500 years ago…