Imagine spinning a top and then letting it come to rest. Is there a way for you to spin the top again so it ends up in the exact position it started, as if you had never spun it at all? Surprisingly, ...

The world is filled with rotating objects—gyroscopes, magnetic spins, and more recently, qubits in quantum computers. For example, the atomic nuclei in our bodies precess at megahertz frequencies ...

J.J. McCarthy is looking forward to getting another chance at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. After missing five games because of a severely sprained ankle, McCarthy is expected to return ...

If you twist something — say, spin a top or rotate a robot’s arm — and want it to return to its exact starting point, intuition says you’d need to undo every twist one by one. But mathematicians ...

The work by Distinguished Professor Tsvi Tlusty at UNIST has been published in the October 2025 issue of Phys. Rev. Lett. The world is filled with rotating objects—gyroscopes, magnetic spins, and more ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

It’s been an odd start to the year for what many hoped would be one of the best 20-or-so offensive units in the nation. Through three Power Four games so far, Texas’ offense is averaging under 15 ...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — As J.J. McCarthy worked toward completion of his recovery from a severely sprained ankle, Carson Wentz was enduring even more agony with an injury to his non-throwing shoulder. The ...

DNS (Domain Name System) settings in Windows help your computer translate website names into IP addresses. However, many of us tend to use a third-party DNS, such as Google Public DNS, as it is often ...

Rematch has been a welcome surprise from developer Sloclap, which repurposed the acrobatic movement and target tracking of martial-arts-inspired fighters Absolver and Sifu to make a cooperative ...

Following the premiere of “After the Hunt” at the 82nd annual Venice Film Festival last August, journalist Federica Polidoro sat for a junket interview with the film’s stars, Julia Roberts, Ayo ...

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