Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challenges of modern physics: loss-free power transmission ...

A bacterium already famous for shrugging off extreme radiation and desiccation has now passed another brutal test: surviving ...

Quantum mechanical effects are known to be easily disrupted by disturbances from the surrounding environment, commonly referred to as noise. To minimize these disturbances, physicists often study ...

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterised a molecule unlike any ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams ...

DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft aims to combine helicopter flexibility with jet-like speeds and runway-independent flight.

An international team of scientists hunting for the origin of a mysterious ultra-energetic cosmic neutrino detected in 2023 said new evidence suggests the unusually powerful particle, whose energy ...

Every kid growing up in a cold climate hears the warning: don’t touch your tongue to frozen metal. Of course, that warning often arrives after someone tries it. The moment the tongue touches icy metal ...