If you’ve ever played with tops, you know that some spin easily while others wobble. Ever wonder why? The answer has to do with rotational inertia, a property shared by all rotating systems. Sometimes ...

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises said on Tuesday that it has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to help bring the laser-based fusion reactor ...

Richard Mansell, Chief Executive Officer at IVO Limited gave the reasons he is optimistic about the Quantum Space Drive tests that will be done in orbital microgravity. The DARPA funding (2018-2022 ...

Science isn't easy. It isn't supposed to be. The process of open publication, peer review and clear data are a part of science because they help us understand how the Universe works. It can be ...

One of my favorite things about physics is that the result that seems to make the most sense on the surface isn't the result you get. One of the properties that can result in a seemingly weird result ...

The way cats drink water turns out to be a more complex process than we thought, according to a paper published in Science on Thursday. When a group of researchers used high-speed imaging to capture ...

In a preregistered replication of the classic "inaction inertia" effect, we showed the scenario above to both US and Hong Kong participants. The experiment involved randomly assigning participants to ...

Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon checks out an optical illusion with Magna-Tiles in May 10's edition of Science Sunday. Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon checks out the impact of UV light on bananas in May ...

[This post was written by Jieying Chen from the University of Manitoba, Canada, who is the lead author of a replication article of the classic "Inaction Inertia" discussed in this post. Gilad Feldman ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Science Central is your one stop spot for fun and learning. Executive director Martin Fisher stopped by Studio 15 to conduct an experiment on inertia. See that in the video ...