Navigation doesn’t always go as planned—a lesson that flies learn the hard way, when a strong headwind shunts them backward in defiance of their forward-beating wings.
On Oct. 27, Fleming and other leaders of the international experiment announced the first results of MicroBooNE’s search for an anomaly that could have indicated a fourth type of neutrino, a subatomic particle considered a fundamental building block of matter.
Weizmann Institute of Science joins Giant Magellan Telescope to advance the world’s most powerful telescope
In the past few years, suitably engineered stacks of two-dimensional materials have emerged as a powerful platform for studying quantum correlations between electronic states. ETH physicists now demonstrate how key properties of such systems can be conveniently tuned by changing an applied electrical field.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Colorado School of Mines are applying a new technique to identify defects in silicon solar cells that cause a drop in efficiency.
Is there meaning and purpose in the universe? This often-debated question is the subject of a June 13 paper by Nobel laureate Brian Josephson and available as a preprint from Research Gate.
"Watching physics at the Olympics," a short article by Dr. Adrian Bejan, made me wish the author had been my high school physics teacher, because he makes the subject fun, interesting and instructive.
Approximately six years ago, I wrote about the integration of colour-shifting photonic crystals into credit cards, banknotes, and passports as a security measure against counterfeiting.
Flying is an energetically demanding activity, and in insects, has evolved into some of the world’s most agile and speedy flyers.
Plump and ponderous, tardigrades earned the nickname “water bears” when scientists first observed the 0.02-inch-long animals’ distinctive lumbering gaits in the 18th century.
A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits, or “qubits.”
Texas A&M research into corrosion-resistant materials could help engineers construct safer structures in the future.
Researchers have demonstrated an easy way to transfer ultrathin organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to temporary tattoo paper that can be applied to any kind of surface. The result is a light-emitting tattoo.
A new curriculum developed and tested at MSU puts the focus on the physics that life scientists need
Four UCLA faculty members were named 2020 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
High-speed manufacturing could advance the commercialization of perovskite modules, a green alternative to conventional solar panels made of silicon.
A study that was 16 years in the making has solved the mystery of an ultraviolet ring around a star in space.
This year ushers in the tenth year for Globus, a secure data and research sharing platform.
Sometimes it helps to step outside your specialty and read publications that view the familiar world from entirely new perspectives.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gravitated to black holes this year in their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics.