Category: 7. SciTech

Last week, President Donald Trump claimed a secret US mission had moved 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz while it was blockaded. The claim landed in an industry already consumed by the question of how much oil is actually getting out—and nobody, it turns out, can answer…

For years, a mysterious predator haunted the fossil beds of Changma Basin in northwest China.

The site is known for a stunning aviary of fossilized birds, including some of the earliest known specimens from the group that gave rise to modern birds.

But these specimens often turned up as broken…

We need one more thing—how about Newton’s second law? This says the acceleration depends on the net force (F_net) and the mass (m) of an object. It’s usually written as F_net = m × a, but we can rearrange it like this: a = F_net/m. Combining this with our gravitational force, we get something…