Fusion scientists have solved a long-standing mystery inside tokamaks, the donut-shaped machines designed to harness fusion ...

The way a key cellular motor works at an atomic level has been uncovered by simulations conducted by RIKEN biophysicists.

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In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Modern nanofluidic chips can mimic complex chemical and biological environments, but their full potential often depends on ...

Some physics ideas sound simple at first, which is exactly why they get misunderstood so often. This concept shows up in ...

Five Penn professors have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science honorary fellows.

In recent years, interdisciplinarity has become one of the central themes in higher education and research policy. Funding ...

Scientists in Sweden have found a critical point in supercooled water at -81 degrees Fahrenheit under extreme pressure.

A Frontier of Physics and Material Science Exploring New Phases of Matter. We’re living in a pretty exciting time for ...

The physics and astronomy professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss his work on dark energy and the Vera C. Rubin ...