Scientists have determined that a rare element found in some of the oldest solids in the solar system, such as...
How do we measure chaos and why would we want to? Together, Penn engineers Dani S. Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich...
The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics. In the century since the field’s inception,...
The dense peaks in the wavelength distribution graph observed in a Lyman-Alpha forest indeed resemble many small trees. Each of...
In 2021, a team led by MIT physicists reported creating a new ultrathin ferroelectric material, or one where positive and...
Imagine a spaceship driven not by engines, but by compressing the spacetime in front of it. That’s the realm of...
It sounds fantastical, but it’s a reality for the scientists who work at the world’s largest particle collider. In an...
Experiments at European XFEL generate states of matter that are close to what occurs in the interior of planets or...
An important part of physics research is examining why theoretical calculations and experimental results sometimes don’t match. A recent experiment...
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have created the first-ever atomic movies showing how atoms...
Despite its immense success in describing the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions, the Standard Model of particle...
During the hot summer of 2020, confined to his Pasadena home during the COVID-19 pandemic, National Medal of Science-winning applied...
