Antoine Naert has reconstructed a prop straight out of the Industrial Revolution. But don’t expect steam-powered engines or decorative brass gears. Naert, a physicist at ENS Lyon in France, and his ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Scripps Oceanography-led PiNC experiment uses non-toxic pink dye and a suite of instruments to study the coastal zone where a river meets the ocean An experiment at a San Diego beach is turning the ...

Physicists seem to be obsessed with cats. James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrodynamics, studied falling feline s to investigate how they turned as they fell. Many physics teachers have used a ...