I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...

As the name suggests, horizontal motion occurs when the object is thrown horizontally, meaning it starts with zero vertical velocity. The only force acting on the object is gravity, causing it to ...

An M777 155mm howitzer fires at Yuma Proving Ground's Kofa Firing Range. (Chuck Wullenjohn/U.S. Army) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army is slated to begin evaluating a hypervelocity projectile for the ...

Nuclear fusion powers the Sun, and if we could harness it here on Earth we would benefit from a clean and abundant source of energy. However, creating a fusion power plant remains a formidable ...