Speed alone may be the factor that draws many sports fans to the bobsled, luge and skeleton events at this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics. But beneath the thrilling descents of the winding, ...

There's a lot happening at the start of an Olympic BMX race. Athletes begin at the top of a ramp, which they descend while pedaling and being pulled by gravity. At the end of the ramp, they transition ...

Speed alone may be the factor that draws many sports fans to the bobsled, luge and skeleton events at this year’s Winter 2022 Olympics. But beneath the thrilling descents of the winding, ice-covered ...

Scientists have calculated a potential speed limit on the universe. And it could offer a window into new laws of physics. The speed limit has to do with black holes — objects in space so dense that ...

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Barry Allen was just a shy Central City crime scene investigator. Until, that is, a particle accelerator accident transformed him into a super-powerful force: The Flash. In the hit TV show "The Flash, ...

Achintya Rao reviews the documentary film Rapid Motion Through Space: an Incomplete History of Speed written, directed and produced by Trent Burton Notions of motion Rapid Motion Though Space is ...

The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space. The ...

In Drexel University’s physics department, faculty and students work side-by-side to explore the span of universal phenomena – from biophysics to astrophysics and cosmology, all the way down to the ...