When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in...
In a major step for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), scientists have detected the first neutrinos using a...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
For decades, the moon’s subtle gravitational pull has posed a vexing challenge—atomic clocks on its surface would tick faster than...
Four researchers from the Institute of Photonics at Leibniz University Hannover have developed a new transmitter-receiver concept for transmitting entangled...
For roughly 70 years, Play-Doh has been entertaining children with its moldable, squishy form. This familiar substance belongs to a...
A crowd or a flock of birds have different characteristics from those of atoms in a material, but when it...
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have retrospectively confirmed that implosion asymmetry was a major aspect of fusion experiments...
Some believe the future of fusion in the U.S. lies in compact, spherical fusion vessels. A smaller tokamak, it is...
Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is...
A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists at the University of Bath in the UK...
The early universe was 250,000 times hotter than the core of our sun. That’s far too hot to form the...
