I tied my coffee cup to a string that was about 3 feet long. On the other end of the string, I tied some washers. Most people think the coffee cup will fall to the ground and break. However, when I ...

While others have probed how breaking strength varies with length, few have examined a large data set (from 1mm to 1km). Researchers tested a model to predict catastrophic failure with a simple string ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...