What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction—from past to...
In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of...
A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial...
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a...
A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better memory-storage...
Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they have...
In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him...
Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors with a...
Researchers have been working for decades to understand the architecture of the subatomic world. One of the knottier questions has...
Monitoring wastewater from international flights for pathogens would be a useful way to get ahead of the next pandemic or...
Astronomers sifting through data from the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia, found themselves confronting an unexpected...
One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies will likely be based on...
