It’s not easy to surprise physicists with a phase change. Yet when Tom White first reviewed the data from a new experiment that used lasers to heat gold, he had to pause and double-check his results.

A new theory-guided framework could help scientists probe the properties of new semiconductors for next-generation ...

A new laboratory experiment uses a water vortex to investigate how planets form from material in protoplanetary gas and dust ...

Researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg (both in ...

While I typically try to keep my tinkering focused on practical purposes, sometimes I just have to pull a good prank ...