In a makeshift changing room filled with Disney Infinity figures, I strip down to my boxers and pull on a two-part Lycra suit. It feels tight, and the top half shimmies up toward my waistline as soon ...

One of the few constants in the history of film has been the speed at which images run through the projector - 24 frames per second. Yet even as it has submitted to the mechanics of time, cinema has ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The long-promised Thread sensor is finally here, but while there are some improvements, Matter’s shortcomings ...

The phrases "perpetual-motion machine"—a concept derided by scientists since the mid-19th century—and "physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek" wouldn't seem to belong in the same sentence. But if ...

Husband and wife Frank and Lillian Gilbreth pioneered scientific management principles that revolutionized how we think about workplace efficiency and human performance. Rather than accepting ...

Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine. Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the ...

For years, new TVs have come with a feature called frame interpolation, or motion smoothing, enabled by default. By creating new frames in between the ones encoded in the movie, it makes motion ...

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