If you carefully lower a rope onto the floor it will probably form a neat coil. While most people wouldn’t give this a second thought, an international team of physicists has done a series of ...

There are many mysteries in life, including why we end up with so many odd socks during the laundry process, why does bread toast perfectly the first time and then burn the next time – and why do ...

A scientist who has studied falling playing cards, coiling rope and other phenomena has now analyzed what transforms a carpenter’s tool into a sonorous instrument. By Nicholas Bakalar Early in the ...