Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because history is replete ...

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In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully created a new phase of matter known as time crystals, which fascinatingly exhibit behaviors akin to perpetual motion. We will ...

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Everyone loves perpetual motion machines. They are a representation of the highest level of creativity in finding loopholes in the laws of physics. Let's take a look at this one. What is a perpetual ...

Perpetual motion machines are impossible, right? They violate the laws of thermodynamics. And yet people have been trying to engineer one for centuries. YouTuber gzumwalt posted a video of what looks ...

A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test. In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...

Starting with Newton’s first law of motion, we delve into how objects behave when they are at rest or in uniform motion. The second law unravels the relationship between mass, acceleration and ...

Alice Gerson’s Mrs. Chase in Prospect Park, 1886. (Photo by Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) “Women and exile are linked,” observes Etel Adnan in Of Cities and Women, her series of ...

I'm not sure why I keep getting emails about perpetual motion machines, but I do. They usually go something like this: "Thank you so much for your recent post on Wired regarding perpetual motion ...