Many of you may have probably heard or read about the expression that you are “nothing but matter in motion”. This is a curious metaphysical statement. It may appear logical to some and illogical to ...

Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in ...

If a cat is simply a mechanical system that obeys Newton’s rules of matter in motion, it should land on its back. (OK, there’s some technicalities — like this should be done in a vacuum, but ...

Press dispatches from California Institute of Technology last week described “the creation of matter out of pure motion.” The impression given was that this was a brand new accomplishment ...

Critters in motion. Physics applies to animals in action over a wide range of spatial scales. At the smallest end of the range, attractive forces between nearby atoms facilitate the ability of ...