A columnist recalls planting poplar trees 50 years ago and how removing them inspired a personal twist on Newton’s third law.

What other schools offered you and what was it about Navy that made you come here? I wasn't really offered by any other schools besides Navy. I only had interests from other schools that were waiting ...

Thys Van Warmerdam was on a backpacking trip with seven friends at Point Reyes National Seashore when Stanford University announced its admissions decisions. With little to no Wi-Fi available, the ...

This project focuses on the causes of the Fukushima Daiichi accident and safety-related lessons learned for improving nuclear plant systems, operations, and regulations exclusive of spent fuel storage ...

Dr. William M. Bugg, former head of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's physics department, recently passed away at age 95. Under his leadership, the department gained national stature and ...

A New York City high school uses Zion Williamson's career as a case study for a science course. The class at The Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School covers nutrition, psychology, and ...

The footage shows players intentionally pushing the game’s physics system past its limits. Simple movements and collisions begin to cause unstable and unpredictable results. Objects react in ways the ...

Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. Late in ...

One of the pleasures of watching Ilia Malinin, apart from his indifference to gravity, is to witness him becoming. Becoming a world champion, as opposed to a juvenile with a skate-park mentality and a ...

Russell Kulsrud, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, died on Sept. 23 at the age of 97. “Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics ...

When my husband died suddenly, one of his family members said 5 words that taunted me for years After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating the same 2-word phrase. It’s a lesson in ...

SINGAPORE - Students are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) tutors for their daily work. Besides mainstream tools such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the latest contender ...