The threat of 3-point shooting has a powerful effect on defensive positioning. So, how is NBA shooting gravity defined and how can we visualize it? Since the dawn of the modern 3-point era, NBA teams ...

New computer visualization technology developed by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Since 2013, scientist and data graphics guru ...

Although we take a lot of scientific knowledge for granted today, each of the basics – whether it be about light, gravity, mass or the shape of the Earth – had to be theorized and experimentally ...

NASA released a visualization of what a black hole might look like up close, and it’s mesmerizing to see. The visualization simulates how a black hole’s dense gravity would distort our view, resulting ...

Vestibular sensation anchors our perception of the environment and is crucial for maintaining balance during locomotion. Vertebrate animals use the evolutionarily conserved vestibular system to sense ...