Penn State scientists have unveiled a new theory-driven method to predict superconductors, offering a possible path toward materials that could conduct electricity perfectly. Electricity travels ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as the place to do plasma ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8–10 times that of ...

It is once again Nobel Prize season, and this year’s top prize in physics honours three quantum physicists for their discovery of “macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling an ...

The pH, or the acidity or alkalinity of an environment, has long been known to affect how efficiently catalysts drive key ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, ...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Higher education is increasingly under attack for what and how students learn. Some of that is political. Some, deserved. “Energy” is now one such political battleground. Environmental stu ...