Speed alone may be the factor that draws many sports fans to the bobsled, luge and skeleton events at this year's Beijing Winter Olympics. But beneath the thrilling descents of the winding, ...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate recently hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at ...

Solve the classic blob jump physics problem using the Work–Energy Theorem. Follow how gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy transfer explain the launch speed and maximum height, ...

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we ...

This resource is part of Science Friday’s Educator Phenomena Forum and was developed collaboratively by Jose Rivas, an engineering and AP science teacher in Lennox, California, and Sarah Han, a PhD ...

Much of the excitement of a luge run is easy to miss – the athletes’ movements are often too small to notice as they fly by looking like nothing more than a blur on your television. It would be easy ...