For seventy years, one stubborn physics problem has stood between fusion’s promise and practical reactors. That puzzle, how to keep violent runaway electrons from shredding the inside of a tokamak, ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other ...

The bewitching duo of Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock turned this 1998 supernatural dramedy with a baffling story line into a Halloween classic. The bewitching duo of Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock ...

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], you need a gamma ray spectrometer. The video below reviews the Radiacode ...

This book is a lab manual that can be integrated with a bioinformatics course. The field of bioinformatics is advancing at a remarkable rate. With the development of new analytical techniques that ...

A new study reports the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect – a long-hypothesized thermal effect that ties heat, electric current, and magnetic field into one neat result ...

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) on Aug. 20 at a pivotal time for the race toward reliable fusion energy, which decisions ...

At the foot of the thickly forested Dashi Hill, in southern China’s Guangdong province, pre-approved visitors can take a ride aboard a unique yellow train. Rather than winding through the serene ...

This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...