On a Ferris wheel, your body feels different at different points of the ride. You feel lighter at the top of the wheel, and then heavier at the bottom. Why? Because of the circular shape of a Ferris ...
IT WAS Dominik Rauch’s birthday, and he was 2300 metres up a mountain in the Canary Islands when a freak winter storm nearly wrecked his PhD. It could have been worse. A few hundred metres away, his ...
I first learned in high school physics about the myth of centrifugal force. On paper and in theory, it’s a very real force, one that pulls you away from something. The term comes up in the automotive ...