Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Every time you step on a sturdy bridge or travel on a smooth road, you are experiencing the work of civil engineers.

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

If it takes forever for your water to heat up when you run the tap or shower, you can get faster hot water without spending big on a tankless water heater.

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI systems work ...

Kauai, one of the most remote islands of Hawaii, stands steady among the timeless crash of ocean waves. Electric waves, ...

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...