A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

The discipline of economics—as it is conceived in the Western countries in our time—did not emerge as a penetration into previously unknown territory opened up by new scientific instruments, like ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

For three years, the physicist Francesca Ferlaino and her team at the University of Innsbruck worked to image these quantum-scale vortices in action. “Many people told me this would be impossible,” ...

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Nigerians are celebrating P.N. Okeke, the author of the famous Physics For Senior Secondary School, a book that is widely known and used in Nigeria.

Some physicists believe that a fifth fundamental force could be the cause of some observational anomalies. A new study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented ...

This so-called neutron lifetime problem has perplexed scientists for decades, but now physicists at TU Wien in Austria have come up with a possible explanation. The difference in lifetimes, they say, ...

Then, in 2020, the growth rate nearly doubled. Scientists were baffled — and concerned. Methane is the big question mark hanging over the world’s climate estimates; although it breaks down in ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists and collaborators at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany discovered a never-before-seen adaptation that allows yeast cells to go ...