Author: Rhett Allain

Using the videogame's training mode, you can figure out the rules governing how the various characters jump and move.

Good ol' trig: that bastion of angles and triangles is essential to calculating velocity, momentum, and much more.

Using footage shot by The Slow Mo Guys, you can get a pretty good estimate of the speed at which cracks travel through a sheet of glass.

Solve this *Captain America* physics puzzle.

The old-school way to navigate is with a clock and a sextant, but you can also hack together this alternative.

A warp-speed history of our quest for cheap energy, from prehistoric hunters to climate change.

In a video, the Boston Celtics player stands on a basketball court and leans... and leans. Here’s how to parse the mystery of why he doesn’t fall.

We did the math on a famous thought experiment by Isaac Newton involving a very tall mountain, a wicked fast cannonball, and good old gravity.

In the new 'Aquaman' trailer, the superhero bounds from the water and lands on a submarine. It's a fantastical leap grounded in serious physics.