Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a ...

Test your knowledge with this American food quiz and see if you can guess how old these iconic snacks and brands really are.

Plasma is usually introduced as the stuff of stars and fusion reactors, a searing soup of charged particles that has little ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

An arctic air mass has descended into the US, and a disrupted polar vortex will keep the nation in the freezer at times deeper into December. More than 200 million people will wake up to freezing ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in the clouds of gas and dust that swirl just beyond our solar system—almost ...

We are watching a big cold front moving across the country next week. LIVE RADAR // LATEST WEATHER ALERTS // TRAFFIC MAPRight now, that front brings us rain in Cincinnati on Tuesday and into Wednesday ...

Beautiful Weekend ahead for Twin Cities Today through Sunday for outdoor activities with Sunshine and Above Average Temperatures but by Monday Rain moving into the area late Monday afternoon. Rain ...

Bend, Ore (KTVZ). After a quiet and dry day today, there will be some changes on the horizon tomorrow. Currently we have mostly to partly cloudy skies and a near normal temperature forecast for today.