Player 001 is one of the most interesting characters in Squid Game season 2, and here is the real reason why he messed up the ...

Remember how, in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Dom Cobb uses a spinning top to work out whether he’s awake or dreaming? If the top spins a few times and then ...

In 2010’s Inception, Christopher Nolan used a spinning top to deliver one of the most unforgettable final shots of his career. Photo-illustration: Eric Vilas-Boas/Observer; Warner Bros.

With this spinning top, you will never have to answer (or even ask) the question that popped as Chris Nolan’s “Inception” ended: did the top drop or did it continue spinning? In the 2010 ...

With just a flick of the wrist, a spinning top balances on its tiny tip, seemingly defying gravity. This dance of physics introduces us to the concept of angular momentum, a force that keeps it ...