Artist Takeshi Murata has physically animated this sphere using kinetic motion and strobes—it is not a 3D render. It is in fact a type of zoetrope, a rotating illusion originating in the nineteenth ...

A team of physicists and chemists in the US has used a tiny rotating sphere to detect individual bacterium. The researchers claim that the technique could be used for a range of applications including ...

A friction-like quantum force could accelerate the motion of a rotating nanometer-diameter sphere when the sphere sits next to a graphene-coated surface. A classical object experiences friction only ...