Developer Insomniac Games has revealed that the web-swinging in its upcoming Spider-Man game is based on physics and momentum. The new Spider-Man has been on everyone's radars for over a year, and ...

Surely by now, someone online has clearly shown this image to be fake. Instead, let's use this as an example looking at the way people think about forces and motion. I'm not exactly sure of the ...

Depending on your major, you may have caught it, and you might not have: suspended delicately by a thin wire a burnished bronzed ball roughly the size of a basketball swings slowly back and forth. Its ...

Exciting nuclei of iron atoms with a flash of X-ray light. (Courtesy: MPI for Nuclear Physics) Scientists routinely use laser light to control how an atom’s electrons move from one electronic state to ...

Fans watching the world’s top golfers compete in the final day of the Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club today might wonder how these pros manage to hit the ball so well. Sure, you can buy ...

The Buffalo Museum of Science's impressive 75-foot Foucault pendulum is no longer out of commission, thanks to the efforts of a professor and undergraduate student in UB's Department of Physics. The ...

There are four things most people don’t know, or simply don’t appreciate, about physics: 1) the right answer to a question is sometimes surprising; 2) it’s simpler than you think sometimes; 3) that ...

A scientist just scored honors for a musical adaptation of his research on Friday. Pramodh Senarath Yapa, a physicist currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, ...