Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

When quantum spins interact, they can produce collective behaviors that defy long-standing expectations. Researchers have now shown that the Kondo effect behaves very differently depending on spin ...

Idzerda is now director of the MonArk Quantum Foundry, a partnership between MSU and the University of Arkansas whose mission is to accelerate research for quantum technologies in the U.S.

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper thought was impossible.

Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that ...