Everyone knows that relativity plays hell with time, and that it can do a number on space, but what about mass? Why do objects get more or less mass depending on their relative speed? We’re going to ...

We spend a lot of our lives getting from here to there. Everyday we slog from home to work and back again. Once a week we make the trek to the grocery store. A few times a year we take vacations ...

Speed is a measure of how fast an object is moving. Calculate speed using the speed equation - speed = distance divided by time. The speed equation can be rearranged to find distance travelled and ...

When you think about where the Universe came from, you likely think about the hot Big Bang as our origins. According to the Big Bang, we began with an early, dense, uniform state of high-energy matter ...

A little-studied mite native to California, the Paratarsotomus macropalpis, has the "fastest relative speed" of any animal on the planet. "The mite runs at a relative speed of … nearly 200 body ...

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