When you make conducting wires thinner, their electrical resistance goes up. This is Ohm’s law, and it is generally right....
An international team of biologists and theoretical physicists from Dresden (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems), Cambridge,...
There has been a lot of buzz about quantum computers and for good reason. The futuristic computers are designed to...
Quantum computers have the potential to vastly exceed the capabilities of conventional computers for certain tasks. But there is still...
For airliners, cargo ships, nuclear power plants and other critical technologies, strength and durability are essential. This is why many...
An international team of physicists, with the participation of the University of Augsburg, has for the first time confirmed an...
It turns out sperm go against the flow better when they swim together. Despite the popular idea that the fastest...
The international ALICE collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has just released the most precise measurements to date of...
In molecules, the atoms vibrate with characteristic patterns and frequencies. Vibrations are therefore an important tool for studying molecules and...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
During development, the cells of an embryo divide until a fully functional organism emerges. One component of the cell is...
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically...
