Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanette Hurt covers the culture of spirits, wine and beer. Physicist Álvaro Díez likes solving everyday problems with physics, ...

Moving along with our top science apps (we first showed you the best iOS math apps), now it’s time to clear some of the mystery surrounding the great laws of physics. These have plagued students ...

Chilling out: how long would it take to cool these cans in the fridge? (Courtesy: H Johnston) Summer will soon be over in the northern hemisphere, but we still have a few weeks left to enjoying a cold ...

A 20-year-old college student has rebuilt Portal, Valve's 2007 space-bending game, from the ground up, on—wait for it—a graphing calculator. In a display that puts the old calculator versions of Mario ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you and I calculate two plus two, we imagine a number line, start at two and hop over a ...

We all have a few go-to calculations that we find ourselves doing often, like converting ounces to cups or miles to kilometers—that sort of thing. When I need to do a quick conversion, I use ...