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The U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane launches August 21, 2025, carrying a quantum inertial sensor, a potential GPS ...
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Researchers used Google’s quantum processor to simulate fundamental physics, offering a new way to study the universe’s basic forces and particles. The fundamental forces that shape our universe are ...
The ATLAS collaboration has reported evidence for Higgs bosons decaying into muons and has enhanced the ability to detect ...
Photophoresis occurs when gas molecules bounce more forcefully off the warm side of an object than the cool side, creating ...
Physicist Carlos Argüelles-Delgado gives us an introduction to this one-of-a-kind facility, one of the most successful ...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting ...
Deep neural networks (DNNs), the machine learning algorithms underpinning the functioning of large language models (LLMs) and ...
A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team including Andriy Nevidomskyy, professor of physics and astronomy at ...
A controversial ancient map has sparked debate among historians and theorists alike. Could this be evidence of lost civilizations—or just a misread artifact? Here's what we really know. # ...
A man has made travel an unpredictable adventure by throwing a dart at a map of the world while blindfolded — and visiting whichever country his darts happen to hit.
Heat can induce multiple phase transitions in topological insulators, offering a novel, non-structural method to control topological phases through thermal effects ...