The latest New Year’s Eve Ball will make its Times Square debut this year — the largest one to date, featuring nearly double the amount of reflective crystals as its predecessor, officials announced ...

In the Physical: Asia finale, the championship hinged on one of the most technically demanding tasks of the season: the four-ball Iron Drag tiebreaker. This final round required Korea and Mongolia to ...

DOWNINGTOWN, PA — The Best Buddies Clubs of Downingtown East and West High Schools organized the annual Eastern Pennsylvania High School Buddy Ball on March 15, creating an evening of friendship, ...

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

It’s possible to defy gravity using sound waves, magnets or electricity, but today’s methods can’t hoist heavy items high in ...

Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot ...

Early on, Ball x Pit creator Kenny Sun hadn’t found the secret sauce yet. It wasn’t until one huge pivot that he felt it was ...

The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, ...

Inserting easy-to-release slipknots into surgical thread could help surgeons to tie perfect sutures — tight enough to help heal a wound but not so tight that they damage tissue. Researchers worked out ...

We don’t like to brag, but here at The Escapist, we were one of the first out there to realise that Ball x Pit was not just ...