Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...

University at Buffalo researchers have discovered that uneven electric charges on particles in turbulent air cause them to form dense clusters. The study, published in PNAS, shows that patchy surface ...

A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could help ...

Have you ever wished to drive microscopic matter along an arbitrarily tailored trajectory instead of just a circle? That's ...

A research team led by Prof. Hao Ning of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

A dead star accelerates protons to extreme speeds, shedding light on the origin of the most energetic cosmic rays.

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Cleaner air is making marine clouds dimmer and oceans warmer, revealing a climate trade-off called the "clean air paradox." ...

For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside some of the most ...

For the last 80 years, the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), which describes all electromagnetic interactions, has been a cornerstone of the standard model, withstanding the scrutiny of ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has issued a stark warning that humanity stands a slim chance of surviving another ...