Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The Standard Model of particle physics o ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

A new material developed at Penn State defies a fundamental law of physics, opening doors to highly efficient solar cells.

The detection of small forces is of great interest in any robotic application that involves interaction with the environment (e.g., objects manipulation, physical human-robot interaction, minimally ...

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A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

Newton's laws of motion, often perceived as abstract, are actually evident in everyday experiences. The first law explains ...

Artificial intelligence can beat world champions at chess, generate stunning artwork, and write code that would take humans ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water sloshes around inside the cells that make up organs ...

There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe ...

Recently, Fermilab in Chicago thought that they might be closing in on a fifth force, though their final results of the “muon g-2” experiment largely confirmed the standard model.