The practice of purposely looping thread to create intricate knit garments and blankets has existed for millennia. Though its precise...
An early-career physicist mathematically connects timelike and spacelike form factors, opening the door to further insights into the inner workings...
The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird,...
In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an...
EMBL tech developers have made an important leap forward with a novel methodology that adds an important microscopy capability to...
For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the Waitukaitis group at...
As the carriers of the weak force, the W and Z bosons are central to the Standard Model of particle...
When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their...
Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it’s true that...
One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get...
Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the “pile of snow?” If you ask yourself these questions,...
