The fantastic feats of comic-book superheroes are useful for teaching physics, James Kakalios of the University of Minnesota told the American Physical Society meeting in Austin, Texas, last week.

Physics in games has become one of the most critical parts of the experience, with players loving the added depth and immersion brought about by realistic physics systems that do a great job of ...

Wirm furnishes you with the full powers of a limbless invertebrate. Your peristaltic locomotion allows you to crawl over most ...

It’s never too early to bring science to life for kids. There are not only real-world examples of physics at play to discover, but new toys can make learning about these concepts a fun, exciting ...

Physics can be intimidating, but educators on the Physics Bus are trying to change that. By making students’ first exposure to physics fun, they hope to spark a curiosity that will last a lifetime.

Messing around with hand-tracking is really fun the first couple times you try it, and seeing my twiddling fingers represented in VR really served up some of the first ‘wow’ moments for me. Despite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. The highlight of the Great Escape trip wound up being their wave pool, ...

What goes up must come down. And what goes way, way up can come down way, way too fast to survive the sudden stop. That’s why [Tom Stanton] built an altitude recording projectile into an oversized ...

In this series of articles, some of YouTube's most popular science channels take a turn in the spotlight. Their creators employ a range of techniques and styles, weaving together graphics, footage, ...

This past weekend was the open beta test for Ubisoft's open world Ghost Recon: Wildlands and like a lot of open-world games, it's filled with ragdoll physics and terrible driving. The physics thing ...

A bottle containing liquid nitrogen exploded in a trash can, causing an ear ringing boom and making the lid blast to the roof of the Youth Discovery Center at the Ohio State Fair. This wasn’t an ...

Physics is fun, or so the science popularizers like to claim. Anyone who is up all night writing a PhD thesis is likely to disagree, as will final-year undergraduates with exams on quantum mechanics ...