A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...
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They used sound to lift stones - was this the secret to the pyramids?
Ancient civilizations moved stones weighing hundreds of tons without cranes, pulleys, or modern machines. One theory? They used sound. And shockingly, science now shows acoustic levitation is real — ...
Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...
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The simplest self-braking pulley
A hands-on physics experiment demonstrates how a basic self-braking pulley works, explaining the forces and friction that allow it to stop itself without extra mechanisms. What happened with the 14th ...
On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...
Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University. Nichols, 64, had ...
Harold Wayne Nichols, who will be killed by lethal injection, confessed to killing Karen Pulley and raping other women Tennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection on ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University ...
Harold Wayne Nichols, the East Ridge man who was convicted in the rape and murder of Karen Pulley, died by lethal injection on Thursday morning. State officials said, "Today, by order of the Tennessee ...
A new study reinterprets the chambers and passageways of the Pyramid of Khufu not as tombs, but as parts of a gigantic construction machine, solving mysteries that have persisted for millennia. For ...
On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: three shiny new medals, 11 million Swedish kronor (to be divided ...
For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...
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