New research examines the fundamental cognitive abilities that an intelligent agent requires to navigate the world: discerning distinct objects and inferring how they respond to physical forces. Josh ...

Starting with Newton’s first law of motion, we delve into how objects behave when they are at rest or in uniform motion. The second law unravels the relationship between mass, acceleration and ...

An atom is electrically neutral which means that there are identical numbers of protons and electrons. Positive charge of protons is composed of negative charge of electrons. It has no electrical ...

All of the objects in our solar system are acted upon by forces. Forces are pushes or pulls. Every force has both a strength and a direction. Applying a force on something–like pushing a toy car–can ...

Take a pencil, stretch out your arm, and let go. We all know that the pencil will fall. OK, but what about dropping a bowling ball? Is that the same thing? No wait! How about a watermelon dropped off ...

The metamaterial created by Zhang is used to push and rotate an object adorned with the University of Wisconsin’s Bucky the Badger. NEW ORLEANS, May 20, 2025 – Sound can do more than just provide a ...