Ever since humans could first observe sunspots about 400 years ago, we’ve been using them to try to define the...
In 15th-century Germany, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, a machine that allowed for mass production of texts. It is...
An international collaboration of scientists has created and observed an entirely new class of vortices—the whirling masses of fluid or...
From water boiling into steam to ice cubes melting in a glass, we’ve all seen the phenomenon known as a...
Generating power from sunlight bouncing off the ground, working at night, even helping to grow strawberries: solar panel technology is...
Our modern understanding of the physical world is based on gauge theories: mathematical models from theoretical physics that describe the...
Physicists love to smash particles together and study the resulting chaos. Therein lies the discovery of new particles and strange...
A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger...
After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved at Lawrence Livermore...
When humans, animals, and machines move throughout the world, they always push against something, whether it’s the ground, air, or...
A team based at Princeton University has accurately simulated the initial steps of ice formation by applying artificial intelligence (AI)...
Much ado was made about the Higgs boson when this elusive particle was discovered in 2012. Though it was touted...
