Try to picture a proton—the minute, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus—and you may imagine a familiar, textbook diagram:...
Washington University in St. Louis is part of a collaboration that has yielded new insight into one of the universe’s...
For “Star Wars” fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it jumps to hyperspace...
Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could undo? Correcting past mistakes is one of the reasons...
Superconductors are materials that conduct electrical current with practically no electrical resistance at all. This ability makes them extremely interesting...
The Large Hadron Collider restarted Friday after a three-year break for upgrades that will allow it to smash protons together...
Can we find order in chaos? Physicists have shown, for the first time that chaotic systems can synchronize due to...
Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in...
A puzzling process called magnetic reconnection triggers explosive phenomena throughout the universe, creating solar flares and space storms that can...
The eerie, ethereal sound of the singing saw has been a part of folk music traditions around the globe, from...
We like some foods, and dislike others. Of course, the way food tastes is important, but mouthfeel, and even the...
Soils store more carbon than all the vegetation on the Earth’s surface. However, there are still many unanswered questions about...
