A group of students at Ransom Everglades High School in Coconut Grove will see their science experiment launched on a Blue Origins rocket, as part of a program sponsored by NASA. The milestone is ...

Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because history is replete ...

Despite decades of feverish and fraudulent research, the perpetual motion machine remains elusive. By perpetual motion, gadgeteers really mean perpetual work. An object in motion, as Galileo and ...

Quantum mechanics… The very name tends to give me a headache. Quantum theory is one of the best theories science has ever come up with, as seen in its uncanny ability to predict and explain a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From diamonds to snowflakes to salt, crystals are common in nature. The arrangement of their ...

It sounds like the theoretical impossibility of perpetual motion, but engineers at the University of Michigan have created a pacemaker that is powered by the beating of your heart -- no batteries ...

Almost as soon as humans created machines, they attempted to make "perpetual motion machines" that work on their own and that work forever. However, the devices never have and likely never will work ...

A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test. In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...