When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami...
by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences They are everywhere, around us and within us....
Three years ago, the first ever image of a black hole stunned the world. A black pit of nothingness enclosed...
Imagine a computer that can think as fast as the human brain while using very little energy. That’s the goal...
As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to...
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am...
For the first time, researchers have used liquid crystals to create a flat magic window—a transparent device that produces a...
A research team was able to generate polarized X-rays with unprecedented purity at the European XFEL in Hamburg. The experiments...
Holding the right material at the right angle, Cornell researchers have discovered a strategy to switch the magnetization in thin...
Rice University photonics researchers have created a potentially disruptive technology for the ultraviolet optics market. By precisely etching hundreds of...
Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how...
Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically respectable if you...
