Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...

Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have created an “optical sieve” capable of detecting minute nanoplastic particles. Functioning much like a test strip, this innovation is designed to provide ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

As simple as that all may seem, not every manufacturer participates in testing or publishes CADR information, and some provide either a range of scores or a single composite score instead of three ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

Researchers have for the first time measured the speed of proton transfer through charged water, a fundamental chemical ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

If a new proposal by physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of ...

Our sun has unexpectedly begun to ramp up its activity, which could lead to more severe solar storms that cause blackouts and ...