Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, or ...

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...

In this video, we explore the concept of symmetry, regarded as the root of physics. We delve into the significance of symmetry and its connection to group theory, particularly Noether's Theorem, which ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

Gravity isn't the same everywhere on Earth. In one place under Antarctica, it is so weak that a gravity hole has formed. This point is also extremely strong at the same time, and this happened over ...

A team in Japan may have found a way to track the invisible force that shapes our universe, without needing to see or touch it.

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is reportedly considering invoking the ‘Force Majeure’ clause to defend its decision to boycott the high-profile T20 World Cup 2026 match against India on February 15 ...

circa 1969: Still-life of bundles of American paper currency. The bundles include five, ten, twenty, and fifty dollar bills. (Photo by Lambert/Getty Images) In an editorial at the Wall Street Journal ...

India, the world’s largest vegetable oil buyer, canceled more soybean oil shipments from South America as the rupee’s slump to a record low widened the price gap between local and imported oil. About ...

The dramatic surge in U.S. military power in the Caribbean since August 2025 — anchored by the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the deployment of F-35s to Puerto Rico, expanded naval patrols, the ...