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Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Ramanujan’s century-old pi formula is finding new relevance in modern physics, with scientists linking his mathematics to ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Dreaming of visiting other stars? The universe has built in walls we cannot break. This video confronts the harsh physics ...

A new single-string method lets flat designs deploy into complex 3D structures, with potential uses in modular space habitats ...

Fragmentation, or how things break, may seem like a truly random process, but new study shows that fragmentation will actually follow a process to maximize entropy. This behavior is a manifestation of ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

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Weather forecasting is one of the most advanced sciences on Earth. But it’s also one of the most complex and humbling. Here's ...