J.J. McCarthy is looking forward to getting another chance at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. After missing five games because of a severely sprained ankle, McCarthy is expected to return ...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — As J.J. McCarthy worked toward completion of his recovery from a severely sprained ankle, Carson Wentz was enduring even more agony with an injury to his non-throwing shoulder. The ...

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Some of the many paths that can be taken through the mathematical space SO(3), corresponding to sequences of rotations in real space. Credit: Tsvi Tlusty. If you twist something — say, spin a top or ...

The work by Distinguished Professor Tsvi Tlusty at UNIST has been published in the October 2025 issue of Phys. Rev. Lett. The world is filled with rotating objects—gyroscopes, magnetic spins, and more ...

Imagine spinning a top and then letting it come to rest. Is there a way for you to spin the top again so it ends up in the exact position it started, as if you had never spun it at all? Surprisingly, ...

The world is filled with rotating objects—gyroscopes, magnetic spins, and more recently, qubits in quantum computers. For example, the atomic nuclei in our bodies precess at megahertz frequencies ...

As Nigeria marks 65 years of independence, Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Babajimi Benson, says the country has pressed the reset button for genuine reform and ...

The NASCAR playoff points reset has become the big story of the week. Bubba Wallace saw his strong lead cut down overnight. That change has made his playoff fight much tougher. But Bubba Wallace is ...

This past week seemed weighted down with dark portents. Thousands forced from their homes by a fire locally, a political figure killed in Utah, unease in Europe. It is one, for sure, that I’d like to ...