Physicists have taken a step that sounds like science fiction: they have coaxed light into behaving as a “supersolid,” a ...
A plasma ejection during a solar flare. (Courtesy: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams) The centre of the Sun is incredibly hot, at 15 million degrees Celsius. Its surface is much cooler, ...
A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.
When a laser experiment fails to produce the expected flash of light, most researchers would assume something went wrong with ...
Results from KATRIN and MicroBooNE strongly disfavour a light sterile-neutrino explanation of longstanding anomalies.
Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...