physics

See the Damage Those Home Alone Booby Traps Would Do in Real Life

Harry and Marv shouldn't have made it out alive.

A Large Hadron Collider LEGO Set May Become a Reality

Designed by a physics PhD student, the tiny model could be made into a real-life LEGO design.

Will NASA Be Able to Stop a Real-Life Armageddon?

First we find it. Then we try to move it. And if that doesn't work, we blow it up.

Watch the Shockwave Caused by This Hammer Breaking a Mirror in Slow Motion

The speed, movement, and chaos of everyday events are sometimes impossible to appreciate with the naked eye.

Have We Detected Hundreds of Signals From Extraterrestrial Life?

The astronomical community is reacting with measured skepticism to a new paper making bold claims.

15 Swinging Facts About Léon Foucault (and His Pendulum)

7. He was chummy with Napoleon III.

Check Out This Year's Nobel Prize Winners in Science

This year, the Nobel Prize celebrated research on molecular machines, cells' recycling mechanisms, and discoveries about unusual states of matter.

Physicists Believe They've Discovered a Fifth Fundamental Force of the Universe

If the discovery holds up, it will radically shake up what we know about the workings of the universe.

Why Are There High and Low Tides?

Have you ever been to the beach and built a sand castle, then watched it wash away when the water came in?

The Science Behind a Bed of Nails

A bed of ONE nail is far more dangerous than a bed crammed with them.

Scientists Set to Model the Universe With 'Full' Theory of General Relativity

If you want to calculate how gravity shapes the universe, then Einstein’s got the equations for you—he set them down 100 years ago in his masterpiece, the general theory of relativity. But there’s a catch: Those equations are notoriously difficult to solv