What’s the price of an accurate clock? Entropy, a new study has revealed. Entropy – or disorder – is created...
In 1961, the Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed what is now known as the ‘Wigner’s friend’ thought...
Our world is hugged by complex layers of gases that make up the atmosphere. They protect and nurture all life...
Three billion years ago, light first zipped through chlorophyll within tiny reaction centers, the first step plants and photosynthetic bacteria...
Far down in the periodic table you’ll find a list of heavy elements born in chaos. The kind of chaos...
The 1949 letter by the physicist and Nobel laureate discusses bees, birds and whether new physics principles could come from...
Decades before we knew birds could ‘see’ Earth’s magnetic field, Albert Einstein was discussing the possibility of undiscovered super senses...
Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconductors is nothing but hot electrons...
Not all auroras slither through the sky like snakes. Some – called diffuse aurora – are more like an even...
Quantum entanglement is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart – their...
For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. But on May 5, 2021, the 60th...
Granular materials, such as sand and gravel, are an interesting class of materials. They can display solid, liquid, and gas-like...
