Manipulating solid particles of a few micrometers in size using an electric field has been of great interest to physicists....
The LHCb experiment at CERN recently announced the first proton-proton collisions at a world-record energy with its brand-new detector designed...
It was just a piece of junk sitting in the back of a lab at the MIT Nuclear Reactor facility,...
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems. Predicting the properties of a molecule or material...
Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a...
In its heyday, UIUC’s Blue Waters was one of the world’s top supercomputers. Anyone who was curious could drop by...
Landslides are one striking example of erosion. When the bonds that hold particles of dirt and rock together are overwhelmed...
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable...
Researchers have harnessed the light-guiding properties of spider silk to develop a sensor that can detect and measure small changes...
Quantum computing, though still in its early days, has the potential to dramatically increase processing power by harnessing the strange...
A collaboration led by scientists at Nagoya University in Japan has investigated the nature of dark matter surrounding galaxies seen...
Artificial vision systems find a wide range of applications, including self-driving cars, object detection, crop monitoring, and smart cameras. Such...
