Previous research indicated that 4-month-old infants perceive the unity of a center-occluded object when its visible ends share a common lateral translation in space. The present work investigated the ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...

Out in the depths of the universe, outlandish black-hole-like entities might exist with the power to redefine physics as we know it. A new study calculates that, in the coming years, gravitational ...

The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much brighter. And in fact, astronomers at NASA have just clocked something in deep space that’s so bright, they say it defies the ...

Like-charged objects were found to clump together while opposites repelled because of the newly discovered "electrosolvation force." Scientists have observed like charges attracting each other over ...

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