Sometimes a cat will fall out of a window or balcony—a byproduct, no doubt, of a cat doing cat things. If you have a house cat, your feline's propensity for aerial shenanigans probably doesn't worry ...

Falling objects injured three different people in three separate incidents I recently investigated. The common thread: unsecured objects above the victims’ heads. As in any falling-object case, most ...

In New York City in 2018, a cat reportedly fell from the window of a 32nd-floor apartment onto hard asphalt—and survived. After a two-day stay at the vet, who treated a collapsed lung and broken teeth ...

The hows and whys of rainfall have been pondered for about as long as human beings have walked upright. Now a research team thinks it has discovered something everyone else missed: Some raindrops fall ...

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

It's a legendary experiment: Young Galileo, perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa, drops cannonballs of different weights to see if all objects fall at the same rate. It's a story that's easy to ...

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 ...

If you want to build a rocket with a bold new design, you have to have a way to test its structural integrity without installing an engine. You don’t have a wind tunnel, but you’re not ready to ...