Electrons are tiny and constantly in motion. How they behave in a crystal lattice determines key material properties: electrical conductivity, magnetism, or novel quantum effects. Anyone aiming to ...

“IT’S like my version of a pilgrimage and spreading the word,” says Hamza Yassin, of his debut tour.

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in microscopic spaces.

Theoretical physicists have spent decades wrestling with a disorienting possibility: that the flow of time is not woven into the basic laws of physics but instead emerges from gravity’s effect on heat ...

The new MOTHRA telescope hopes to reveal the “cosmic web”, which huge network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies across the cosmos. It aims to do so by using a specific kind of telescope – ...

New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

During Hurricane Irma in 2017, a 90-foot oak tree split and fell into the middle of Amy Pence’s cottage in the old fishing ...

Skill can get you far in the world of photography, but the accessories and equipment you're using can help you enhance your camera's capabilities even further.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed-matter physics that were long considered separate. The electronic and ...

Despite what some want you to believe, climate science on earth is very well understood and accurately modeled.

Physics is beautiful in its ideas and in the people who pursue them across borders. What better, then, than for 16 laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America to throw open their doors for a ...

Systematic human inspection of the millions of source cutouts in the Hubble Legacy Archive is impossible – but artificial ...