For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

Physics is a subject that many students find both interesting and difficult. But it can become an enjoyable one, provided you approach it correctly. In addition to making learning more enjoyable, ...

The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, ...

This question in the HSC maths extension 2 paper is notoriously difficult, designed to challenge even the brightest students.

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These giants — some are billions of times heavier than our sun — can shoot out ...

Formula 1 has always been a breeding ground for bold engineering, but some ideas were too radical to last. This article ...