The International Isle of Man TT is a crazy motorcycle race. I mean—it's seriously ludicrous. They ride on public roads (yes, they are closed to normal traffic) such that you get these videos of bikes ...

The Doppler effect is an observed change in pitch (how high or low a sound is) when either the source of the sound or the listener is in motion. Imagine a car, its horn blaring, approaching you as you ...

The inverse Doppler effect has been observed in an experiment for the first time. Nigel Seddon and Trevor Bearpark at BAE Systems in Bristol in the UK saw the effect in an electrical transmission line ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and no footprint has yet been left on the Moon. Yet one of the more peculiar twists of the Cold War involved a physics ...

MADISON — What if the speed of light is a constant only most of the time? What if gravity sometimes pushed instead of pulled? Scientists are increasingly asking what would seem like far-out questions ...

The headline is somewhat of a trick question: of course the effect did exist before the railroads. However, it wasn’t yet defined by the physics of the day, nor was it even noticed before the ...

The Doppler shift of sound or light waves from a moving source is familiar to physicists and non-physicists alike. Now, researchers in China and Australia have seen the more exotic inverse Doppler ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Imagine you're at the train station, waiting to catch the northbound train. It's a quiet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 214th birthday of Christian Doppler, whose ...