To Peter Taborek, a drippy faucet is a physics experiment. Taborek uses high-speed video to capture the motion of drops and bubbles coming apart. Knowing the details of this "pinch-off" process is ...

Dive into Python Physics Lesson 12 and learn how energy behaves in a mass-on-a-spring system. This lesson explores kinetic and potential energy, energy conservation, and oscillatory motion, all ...

The Amazing Spider-Man opens in theaters next week—will there be some spidey-science on the screen? Physicist James Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes, and a science consultant on the ...

Clap your wet hands. What happens to a thin film of water when it is compressed vertically? Ultimately, oil companies are interested in this research because of the oil separation process. Sunny Jung ...

For those questioning the value of particle physics projects such as the Large Hadron Collider (20 April, p 32), the LHC offers one key lesson if our masters are willing to learn it: how to ...