You can see right through this little aquarium fish from Thailand: Its skin is almost completely transparent. But when the...
Is human migration into space inevitable? Is it based on facts, or is it based upon a belief in human...
Diagnostic imaging offers physicians and scientists critical visual representations of internal body structures, greatly enhancing clinical analysis and medical intervention....
Models for how heavy elements are produced within stars have become more accurate thanks to measurements by RIKEN nuclear physicists...
Physicists are learning more about the bizarre behavior of “strange metals,” which operate outside the normal rules of electricity. Theoretical...
On the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, sending a loud shockwave and sonic...
Putting the clocks forward does not affect the length of the daylight period—a natural phenomenon beyond human control—but rather makes...
When physicists recently steered a tiny microparticle toward a cylindrical obstacle, they expected one of two outcomes to occur. The...
Glass nanoparticles trapped by lasers in extreme vacuum are considered a promising platform for exploring the limits of the quantum...
Atomic nuclei take a range of shapes, from spherical (like a basketball) to deformed (like an American football). Spherical nuclei...
Tunneling reactions in chemistry are difficult to predict. The quantum mechanically exact description of chemical reactions with more than three...
There’s a mystery happening in some satellites facing the sun, and scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
