It takes a minute or two for the teenage recalcitrance to wear off. But once it falls away, like the booster on a missile, these young rocketeers launch into their own language. Soon they’re talking ...

In a previous post, I was trying to show that the range of a projectile depends on the launch angle. Yes, this isn't that too difficult to see in an introductory physics course, but how do you show ...

Suppose you throw some object near the surface of the earth. If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward gravitational force, we call this "projectile motion." Yes, that ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

At the Vertical Gun Range at NASA Ames Research Center, located at Moffett Federal Airfield in Silicon Valley, researchers from the other side of the country recently fired marble-sized rock ...