More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Far from our solar system, astronomers have finally watched a star consume one of its own planets, catching in real time a ...

Tohoku University and Fujitsu Limited today announced their successful application of AI to derive new insights into the ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...