For many students, the ambition to fly an aircraft is more than just a childhood fascination—it’s a professional goal that demands planning, discipline, and specialized training.

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

Researchers have used the centuries-old idea of pinhole imaging to create a high-performance mid-infrared imaging system ...

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

For weeks, Elena Adams has been leading her team at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, through ...

Ken Goldberg shares his thoughts about the “humanoid hype” and the emerging paradigm shift in the robotics field.

In a new perspective article in Science Robotics, UC Berkeley roboticist Goldberg describes how a massive “data gap” will prevent robots from gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are ...

AI chatbots have advanced rapidly over the past few years, so much so that people are now using them as personal assistants, ...

Moonstone Beach is where Mother Nature does the heavy lifting in the beauty department. Named for the smooth, translucent stones that wash ashore after being polished by the Pacific, this beach offers ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...