It’s cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the optical components...
In 2018, passengers onboard a flight to Australia experienced a terrifying 10-second nosedive when a vortex trailing their plane crossed...
Given all the logistics involved, it’s unlikely that humanity will ever see our way outside the Solar System to colonise...
Of all the weather phenomena our magnificent planet throws at us, lightning is one of the most spectacular – and...
One of the fluffiest exoplanets we’ve ever found in the Milky Way galaxy is challenging our understanding of how giant...
Polarons are important nanoscale phenomena: a transient configuration between electrons and atoms (known as quasiparticles) that exist for only trillionths of...
Cell velocity, or how fast a cell moves, is known to depend on how sticky the surface is beneath it,...
Evidence of a long-sought hypothetical particle could have been hiding in plain (X-ray) sight all this time. The X-ray emission...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time....
A large international team of researchers has developed a way to measure cluster formations in the outer neutron ‘skin’ of...
A new study, led by a theoretical physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab),...
Physicists have observed a new state of matter at work inside an elusive thread of quantum gas. The gossamer-thin strings...
