Physics

A small-scale nuclear reactor at a government neutron research facility was shut down last week after it began to…

A team of researchers recently strapped a dismembered carnivorous plant to a sensitive instrument in Berlin, in a…

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy…

An investigation into the way oils behave on hot, flat surfaces has uncovered the process responsible for foods…

In the 1950s, when physicists were racing to invent the first laser, they found that the rules of quantum mechanics…

After axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust…

Using a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…