On May 2, 2005, the Skylark sounding rocket launched on its 441st and final flight. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

"This is one more example of how the everyday ordinary world is full of wonders, if we only choose to see carefully." ...

A Harvard study shows that soft materials, like gels and biological tissue, support boat wake-like surface waves. Because ...

Using various imaging techniques, the scientists tied abdominal movements to shifts in mouse brains and the movement of ...

The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, scientists report in Nature Neuroscience.

A group of researchers at New York University has developed a new type of gear system that uses fluid motion to produce ...

Physicists found a bizarre quantum state in graphene where electrons flow like a liquid and defy basic conduction rules ...

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, working with colleagues in Norway and Chile, recreated the Aharonov–Bohm effect using water waves in a vortex tank, finding unexpected ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the ...

How can public spaces remain safe when large crowds move through them? Engineers and researchers who study these environments often rely on physical models borrowed from fluid dynamics — a branch of ...