For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

The team’s theoretical calculations were largely supported by the results, and showed it’s all about the viscosity. Water reached the 90 percent mark in only a few seconds. Meanwhile, cold maple syrup ...

Over 8,000 people explored hands-on science experiments, from robotic arms to liquid nitrogen ice cream, at CSU's Little Shop of Physics open house.

Michael S Turner argues that the next breakthrough in particle physics and cosmology may be just around the corner.

The unofficial soundtrack of every basketball, squash or hard-court tennis match is the constant high-pitched squeak or shriek of the players' shoes. But can this squeak be designed out of them while ...

Champaign Central physics teacher Darren Plattner will retire at the end of the year after 33 years at the school.

Ezio Todesco charts the future of high-field dipole magnets – a technology set to advance the boundaries of high-energy physics and the societal applications of superconductivity.

An international team of researchers has forced light to replicate the quantum Hall effect, a Nobel Prize–winning phenomenon ...

Fluids moving through pipes lose energy to friction along the walls. Collisions, defects, and random motion steadily break ...

She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production.

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...