Scientists have investigated the forces animals can exert. For example, paleobiologist Gregory Erickson and his team measured...

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Galileo’s comments may have influenced Newton’s development of the first law of motion. In the English translation of The...

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A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California have measured what is...

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Newton’s eccentric character is often commented upon. He kept a record of the sins he felt he had committed including...

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When Hooke first announced his spring law, in 1676, he published it in the form of an anagram, giving the letters...

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For many years there has been speculation that the propagation of an electromagnetic field inside a microwave cavity might be...

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In Gilberte Pascal’s biography of her famous brother, she claims that, when Blaise was five years old, his father refused to...

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A number of unusual papers related to force have been published including an analysis of the force required to drag sheep over...

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The forces involved in penguin defecation are reported in a 2003 paper: Pressures produced when penguins pooh – calculations...

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A recent paper has analysed the causes of the high frictional force that results from the interleaving of two phone books. It...

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The GRACE satellites, (see also page 6), use microwave beams to measure tiny changes to distributions of mass in the Earth...

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