By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

Axions are hypothetical light particles that could solve two different physics problems, as they could explain why some ...

So the magnetic north pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia. This continued in the year just passed, and the newest ...

China's artificial sun breaks density limit that caused fusion experiments to fail, moving closer to clean energy.

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom ...

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Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe ...

This dawning era for diamonds relies on an inversion of the qualities of regularity that have long made it prized for its ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

For seventy years, one stubborn physics problem has stood between fusion’s promise and practical reactors. That puzzle, how ...