Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least 1700, in fact—conducting all manner of experiments ...

In physics, the mesoscale lies between the microscopic and the macroscopic. It is not just the domain of tiny living ...

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother ...

To improve on those first efforts, jawscritters made a series of structural adjustments. First, he made the wheels thinner and the axles shorter, which he says should help Moses make tighter turns. He ...

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a ...