How do skateboarders seemingly defy gravity? How do gymnasts flip in the air? They have skill — and, as a Times interactive explored, an understanding of the laws of motion, physics and energy. By ...

PITTSBURGH — The Carnegie Science Center has opened a new motion lab that will allow athletes and sports lovers to better review their movements and improve them through science. The motion lab will ...

Find out more about Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of force and motion at the amusement park, Silverwood. A force is basically a push or a pull. Forces like gravity, inertia, and momentum affect everything.

Isaac Newton laid the foundations of modern science through his work in motion, gravity, optics, and mathematics. This video ...

Researchers have developed a new way to visualize how ancient animals moved as they roamed the Earth — starting with a Yale-discovered dinosaur’s sickle-clawed foot. The new approach, which uses ...

What happens when a car crashes into a spring? 🚗💥 In this video, we break down the physics behind the collision, energy ...

You're sitting in physics class, working on a traditional problem involving forces and acceleration, when you start to wonder where these terms even came from. Were they just dreamed up to bring ...

THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AND THIS MORNING WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT HOW SOME OF THE CLASSIC SCI FI MOVIES WERE MADE. MARQUISE MEDA IS FINDING OUT ALL ABOUT STOP MOTION ANIMATION IN TODAY’S SCIENCE OF ...

A giant underground motion sensor in Germany has taken its first measurements of Earth’s spin and tilt. Although researchers are still getting the machine’s accuracy up to snuff, their observations ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a ...