Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

First stop is The Valley Primary School in Astley Bridge, where pupils as young as five and six are loving the weekly ...

Scientists at the University of Nebraska are using quantum mechanics to design more powerful and energy-efficient electronic ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...

Three years ago, the data center industry debated whether liquid cooling would ever be necessary. Two years ago, most ...

Building on decades of effort, Lizhong Zhang, Member (2023–24) in the School of Natural Sciences; James Stone, Professor in ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

Physicists have heated gold to over 19,000 Kelvin, more than 14 times its melting point, without melting it, smashing the long-standing “entropy catastrophe” limit. Using an ultra-fast laser pulse at ...