These sparks happen from accumulation of static electric charge—often arising from two different materials rubbing together.

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 ...

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

A team of computational astrophysicists from the Institute for Advanced Study and the Flatiron Institute's Center for ...

Solid-state cooling has long promised quieter, more compact refrigeration without the climate burden of traditional gases, ...

The hands-on activities are organised and supervised by a team of five Year 10 Sharples High School pupils, who deliver fun, hands-on physics activities to a group of Year One pupils. During the first ...

A new science club is sparking interest among Bolton's young Einsteins ...

CONSTRUCTION has begun on a laser that will be 100 times brighter than its predecessor, and a million, billion, billion times brighter than ...

Theoretical chemist’s insights are now embedded into computer software used to predict the behaviour of molecules from pharmaceuticals to construction materials ...

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

In high-speed optical communications, traditional orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing systems face fundamental limitations, including ...