Once complete, ITER will run fusion experiments using five times as much plasma as the largest reactors in operation today.

McLean County has one Nobel Prize winner — but oh what a one! Modern electronics rests upon Clinton Davisson’s physics experiments bombarding a block of crystalized nickel with electrons.

A breakthrough in nuclear physics at Florida Polytechnic University has created an advanced machine learning model that predicts nuclear binding energies with unprecedented accuracy, helping ...

This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: Deciding whether the electromagnetic fields in molecular polaritons should be ...

A new experiment called QROCODILE, led by the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has achieved record sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. Using superconducting ...

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

How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

Rising temperatures of the world's oceans threaten to accelerate the melting and splintering of glaciers—thereby potentially increasing the number of icebergs and, with it, the need to better ...

Wijit Thanesanurak/Shutterstock.com Addressing this noise might result in the best sensors ever created, with applications ...

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without human interference.

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

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...