Reaction wheels are useful things, typically used by satellites to keep themselves oriented the right way up in space. Turning the reaction wheel creates an equal and opposite torque in the spacecraft ...

The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think. By Jason Farago In Milwaukee, two art ...

The Laboratory team’s quantum “demon” uses information about a quantum system’s state and measurement results to drive similarly unusual processes, reversing the usual arrow of time in a quantum ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Optical illusion puzzles have been there for centuries and these are fun challenges that are designed to play tricks on our eyes and brains. Optical illusions work on a simple principle where it ...

Aggarwal et al. develop OCaMP, an orange fluorescent calcium indicator optimised for imaging neural activity at wavelengths above 1000 nm, enabling improved deep tissue imaging and expanded ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.