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Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Dr. Rob and the Crew use bowling balls, beads, and bottles to investigate Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object at rest stays ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,093,882-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Dean Drive What it’s about: Newton’s Third Law Of Motion states that for every action, there is ...

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For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...

Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion teaches that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This simple rule explains many everyday things, from walking and a baseball bouncing to ...

An experiment with light shows that one of the fundamental laws of motion may not always hold in the quantum realm. Much of our understanding of how objects like tennis balls or bicycles move stems ...

Human sperm cells and some microorganisms swim by deforming their bodies in a way that breaks Newton’s third law of motion – and we’re closer to understanding how they do it. The findings could ...

Force equals mass times acceleration! Dr. Rob and the Crew put Newton's Second Law of Motion to the test with scooters, carts, bowling balls, and even a marshmallow catapult. From tug of war to ...