Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.

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More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

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Understand rotational motion in a clear, intuitive way with a lesson designed to stick with you forever. This video breaks ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

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John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm observable at a larger scale. By Katrina Miller and Ali Watkins John Clarke, ...

For over a century, physics has been divided between the elegance of Einstein’s relativity and the strangeness of quantum mechanics. A new framework, the quantum memory matrix, suggests that spacetime ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...