Hot summer days can make it hard to get kids away from their screens and into the great outdoors, but an inflatable water ...

But to paraphrase Mark Twain, persons attempting to find a moral here will be shot, perhaps by a flame-throwing ’40s-era “toy” pistol that fired ping-pong balls at about 50 mph.

“That’s now how it works – we’re not billiard balls. If anything, things have gotten worse,” he added, pointing to China’s close ties with Russia as a disqualifying factor in a ...

On June 15, 1869, John Wesley Hyatt, along with his brother Isaiah Hyatt, received a patent for celluloid, the first synthetic plastic. They had set out to make billiard balls, but had gone on to ...

Object Details Description The best billiard balls once came exclusively from the tusks of Asian elephants. No natural material other than elephant ivory had the physical size, strength, and beauty to ...

Physicists have managed to simulate a strange quantum phenomenon where light appears to arise from empty space a concept that until now has only existed in theory. Using cutting-edge simulations ...

But squash balls are elastic. Even as the ball is pinned at two contact points, it’s still pressed into the wall, accumulating stored energy.

Family of teenage girl allegedly tortured and murdered by man she met on Grindr sues app ‘Without Grindr, we believe that Miranda would have never met this Steven Gress character, and she’d ...

The theory predicts that the combined effect of three focused laser pulses can alter virtual particles in vacuum, generating a fourth laser beam in a “light from darkness” process. “This is ...

Letter Published: 11 May 1929 Elastic Collisions of Electrons with Helium N. F. MOTT Nature 123, 717 (1929) Cite this article ...

Elastic deformations occur in ball screw drives typically due to inertial forces, guideway friction, and cutting forces. This results in elongation and compression of the ball screw, which ...

A teenage motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a collision in Fleet Hargate. The incident happened at 4.11pm yesterday (Tuesday June 10) on Old Main Road outside Willows ...