In a research project that has real implications for their regular laboratory work, a pair of physicists at Brown University ...

“We were not expecting to find so much richness and depth, from a physics point of view, underneath the sole of a shoe,” study co-author Adel Djellouli, a physicist at Harvard University, tells ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers have used that green fluorescent protein and similar molecules to light up ...

The original story “ Physicists build a quantum Newton’s cradle where energy flows without resistance ” is published in The ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures ...

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and gravitational lensing.

Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides ...

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

The display comprises seven sculptures that are illuminated from two different directions. The result is two very different ...

Caltech scientists have developed a method that detects tiny, imperceptible movements at the surface of objects to reveal details about what lies beneath. By analyzing the physics of waves traveling ...

For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating ...