When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

Concerning compounds in black plastic spatulas are migrating into our cooking oil, according to an article Atlantic titled in ...

The atoms of amorphous solids like glass have no ordered structure; they arrange themselves randomly, like scattered grains ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

The state-of-the-art ignition targets fabricated by General Atomics are small, peppercorn-sized spheres made from various ...

Researchers have developed a new method for disrupting the crystal structure of a semiconductor that requires as little as one billion times less power density. This advancement could unlock wider ...

The antiparticles were highly energetic; each one travelled at nearly the speed of light over a path of 10 metres and then annihilated with ordinary matter after about forty billionths of a second.

Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays or particles visible through flashes of light to form an image.

Using muon spin rotation at the Swiss Muon Source SmS, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have discovered that a quantum phenomenon known as time-reversal symmetry breaking occurs at ...