A team led by physicists at Washington University in St. Louis has created quantum sensors that can survive in extreme conditions. Built inside unbreakable sheets of crystallized boron nitride, the ...

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough ...

The number of women in highly technical jobs has grown by just two per cent in five years and greater interventions are ...

The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Stony Brook ...

People are coming up with their own “personal curriculums” to combat brain rot, improve their attention spans and enrich ...

Combining nodal seismic networks with AI creates a high-resolution 3D model of the internal structure of an active volcano ...

Scientists characterized the largest sample of a neural circuit to date to improve artificial intelligence models and better ...

APL’s CHESS thin films nearly double refrigeration efficiency. The scalable materials could transform cooling and energy-harvesting technologies. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...