It's Saturday! Let's review the last seven days of research findings: In a kind of logistics/transport breakthrough, ...

New research from Binghamton University reveals the physics behind wrinkle formation. Uneven skin stretching causes wrinkles, ...

"God does not play dice." This famous remark by Albert Einstein critiqued the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics.

One of the biggest challenges in modern physics is uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity. A new experiment may ...

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) and particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) are important flow visualization technologies for measuring global velocity fields in a nonintrusive manner. However, they are ...

Researchers in Japan observed the transverse Thomson effect for the very first time, a thermoelectric phenomenon that allows ...

The second law of thermodynamics demands that if we want to make a clock more precise – thereby reducing the disorder, or ...

Just 100 years ago, on 9 July 1925, Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his friend, colleague and fiercest critic, Wolfgang Pauli. A few weeks earlier, Heisenberg had returned from the North Sea ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...