A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly tunable, asymmetric mechanical responses, an ability crucial for next-generation ...
Comet 3I Atlas is currently ~186 million miles from Earth, which is twice the distance from the Earth to the sun. It is ...
Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...
An effect first observed decades ago by Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin has been used to fine tune the electrical charge on ...
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a great job at explaining gravity but it is thought to be incomplete ...
Researchers studied drip paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock, made by children and adults. They found that children moved more like Pollock did.
The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...
A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research ...
Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian singularities where two or more eigenstates coalesce, resulting in the eigenspace ...
A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...