Many layers: knife sharpness and cutting technique greatly affect the speed of droplets that are created when cutting an onion. (Courtesy: Zixuan Wu and Sunghwan “Sunny” Jung at Cornell University) ...

On Tuesday 7 October the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced. The process of choosing the winners is highly secretive, so looking for hints about who will be this year’s ...

Pressure is a measure of how concentrated a force is. The amount of pressure exerted on an object depends on the force applied and the surface area it is spread over. Force diagrams and resultant ...

It is not only moving objects that have varying speed. The speed of the wind and the speed of sound also vary. A typical value for the wind is about 12 m/s and the speed of sound in air is about 330 m ...

Hurricanes combine unyielding winds and torrential rain to create some of Earth’s most powerful storms. When these storms near land, wind can cause devastating damage, even spawning tornadoes. But the ...

Abstract: A methodology to stabilize synchronized, balanced, or symmetric phase patterns of unicycle-type agents on a desired common circle, while restricting their trajectories to a certain region of ...

Abstract: Terahertz (THz) circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) demands higher precision in motion compensation (MOCO), posing significant challenges. To address this issue, this article proposes a ...