The soft, waxy "solid refrigerant" being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual ...

BTR New Material Group, a Shenzhen-based battery supplier, in May launched the FLEX semi-solid and GUARD all-solid-state ...

Earthworms often form a cluster, from which they can barely free themselves. A similarly active, writhing structure forms ...

Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice.

They worked with a topological crystal called a kagome solid, which has layers of atoms arranged in a six-sided starlike pattern. They wanted to see the effect of the topological “ghost field” on the ...

CHENNAI: Rita John has taken charge as the new registrar of University of Madras. Rita, who succeeded S Elumalai, is ...

American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil has long argued that the singularity would likely occur around the middle of the 21st century, and with the rise of AI, his predictions are ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new energy-efficient technology that is an alternative to traditional ...

Idaho State University's Physics Department students taught the kids a little about physics and showed them how to build their own water-powered rockets.

The Rochester Quantum Network transmits information by sending single photons through two fiber-optic telecommunications ...

We rarely think about how liquids flow—why honey is thick, water is thin or how molten plastic moves through machines. But ...

Scientists have discovered that under the right conditions, a gummy bear-like ball can roll down a vertical wall all by itself—upending a core assumption in physics.