On a breezy spring afternoon at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, designer Jake Barton is watching a pair of middle schoolers chuck an iPod across a playground while another kid films the scene ...

Chances are the shelter-in-place orders taking effect nationwide have interrupted your kids’ schooling, and as a result, keeping them cooped up has made them destroy everything you once called “home,” ...

After leaving his job as president of RealNetworks Inc. in 1998, Bruce Jacobsen said recently, he figured he would "never touch software again." But as a volunteer physics tutor at Garfield High ...

So Oh. Yeah. Yeah. This is all about having combining the engineering design process and the physics theory. It uses impulse momentum, Newton's laws of motion, and kinematics, which is what they've ...

BUENA PARK – Anna Do, a Fountain Valley High School senior, peered down the side of a protractor and examined the 11-story roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm Thursday. If she measured the angles ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Phun, a free open-source, cross-platform 2D physics simulator, makes you want to pick up blocks, or maybe crayons, and learn more about the way things fall and move ...

If you're anything like us, you probably spent many an hour in your younger days bouncing up and down on a seesaw (or teeter-totter or teeter board, depending on where you grew up. And, even now, you ...

Usually when an amateur bowler toes the line in front of a lane and ten pins, they’re not thinking about much else besides hurling their ball so it hits its target head on. But the physics of the game ...

An application that can tap into a smartphone’s built-in barometer can be a helpful tool for teaching students about Stevin’s ...

A craft stick catapult is easy to build and full of STEM and physics learning. My family had a blast launching marshmallows and trying to catch them in our mouths. Who knew STEM and physics could be ...