How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three Gorges Dam actually did make the days longer, by slowing the rotation of the ...

When you think of Star Wars, what's the first image that comes to mind? Lightsabers, right? Everyone loves lightsabers. You can buy some nice replicas, and there are even classes on lightsaber ...

Sometimes when dealing with probabilities, things don't always work out the way you might expect. My favorite example of this is the Monty Hall problem. The name comes from the game show Let's Make a ...

When someone wishes you a "Happy Pi Day," you probably immediately think of circles—and not only pies. (Pi Day is March 14, or 3.14 if you’re using US date formatting.) That's because if you measure ...

Two weeks ago, NASA smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid called Dimorphos, which orbits a larger rock, Didymos. The mission is formally named the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, but you might ...

June 29, 2022, was the shortest day ever on record, at 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. You probably didn’t notice, since 1.59 milliseconds goes by pretty fast, but it raises some interesting ...

If there's one thing that you should learn from physics, it's that big things are not like small things. I don't just mean that big things are bigger, or even that big things are more massive. (That's ...

I don't think anyone really enjoys filling up the gas tank. It feels like you are just standing around when you could be getting somewhere. If you get gas on your hands or shoes, you smell like it all ...

Everyone loves clouds. Although they are gigantic and beyond our reach, they inspire us with their wide variety of shapes. I mean, who hasn't played the game of guessing what a cloud looks like? Of ...