For more than 150 years, the OJ 287 galaxy and its brightness variations five billion light years away has both puzzled and ...

Key TakeawaysResearchers have built a compact X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) using laser plasma accelerators to generate ...

Astronomers have re-examined the biggest explosion ever seen, possibly the most massive explosion since the Big Bang, to learn more about mysterious blasts of high-energy called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs ...

Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the team blasted the ...

Lightning has captivated scientists for centuries, but despite extensive research, the precise atmospheric conditions that ...

Penn State University scientists have demonstrated the complex series of events occurring inside thunderclouds that create ...

Intentionally designed for privacy, homes built by Joseph Eichler typically feature a low-slung, solid facade with ...

In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes ...

Over 500 million years ago, nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colours via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ...

Non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites are a class of semiconducting material containing a structural asymmetry with ...