The curious minds at What If imagine Earth reshaped like a giant, spinning pizza, exploring gravity effects, weather chaos, and human adaptation.

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

Scientists create toothless liquid gears that rotate on their own and could revolutionize modern industrial engines.

Here’s a thing that happened one day at SPIN back in the ’90s: we all went to the airport. I don’t remember how we got there, or if we arrived together, I don’t remember much at all except that we ...

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

But what if something out there has been sending a steady signal toward Earth for decades — and we’re only now realizing it?

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has used a water blob to explain Earth's shape. Discover the physics of surface tension, rotation, and inertia in this space and physics explainer.

What started off as an eclectic pop-up for music, food and fashion lovers in Palm Beach County has morphed into an ...

While D3 Grand Prix lacks the traditional tournament bracket to crown a winner, the results were clear by the event’s end.