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Vibration sensors can aid in stability and navigation, particularly for field robots in varied terrain, writes a columnist.

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Experts say it will take decades to make Elon Musk’s cosmic vision real.

A team of physicists from the University of Vienna, TU Wien, and Ulm University has cooled a levitated silica nanoparticle to ...

Explore 25 advanced ancient technologies that modern science still cannot fully explain. From pyramids to precision stonework ...

Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...

For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

In his doctoral thesis, Michael Roop develops numerical methods that allow finding physically reliable approximate solutions ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding the ...