It seems truly ominous: Seemingly by its own power, an Egyptian relic rotates on a shelf. This time-lapse video shows a nearly 4,000-year-old, 10-inch-high statue of a man named Neb-Sanu slowly ...

Scientists have created a microscopic sphere and set it awhirl at a blistering 600 million rotations per minute. The sphere, which rotates 500,000 times faster than the average washing machine, is the ...

Moiré pattern evolution. Courtesy: Andrea Silva and Xin Cao. If you’ve ever struggled to shift a heavy piece of furniture, you have probably noticed that rotating the furniture while pushing it makes ...

Spinning objects are hypnotic and fascinating, as last year's fidget-spinner craze overwhelmingly demonstrated. But even the fastest fidget spinner trails the new reigning champion of fast-whirling ...

Did you know that, at a certain point on a moving wheel... there's no motion? Did you know that, at a certain point on a moving wheel... there's no motion? I mean, kinda... it's all relative, right?

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists in the Harvard John A.