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 ...

As a veteran of many stupendously boring – but mandatory – safety training sessions, I was initially tempted to give a wide berth to a booth in the AAAS exhibit hall on lab safety. However, two things ...

PUMPKINS IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE. IT’S AN EXPERIMENT THAT’S DRAWN HALLOWEEN AND PHYSICS FANS ALIKE TO THE CAMPUS. CALEB CALIFANO WAS THERE TO WITNESS THE PROJECT THAT REQUIRED QUITE A CLEANUP AFTER.

Explore the fascinating world of magnets with a variety of fun and educational experiments using everyday objects. Watch as we test the magnetic properties of apples, stack iron coins using a ...

Usually when an amateur bowler toes the line in front of a lane and ten pins, they’re not thinking about much else besides hurling their ball so it hits its target head on. But the physics of the game ...

San Francisco teacher Amber Zertuche led her physics students up two flights of the dingy staircase in the nondescript Mission District building to the destination of their field trip - a chaotic room ...

For the past decade, scientists have been toying with the notion of encapsulating medicine in microscopic balls. These so-called nanospheres could travel inside the body to hard-to-reach places, like ...