The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

The Lab Report: Every week, The Lab Report takes a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Somewhere along the Mississippi River, a blissful current whips ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging ...

It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny ...

The Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS), created on January 1, 2019, is a laboratory for interdisciplinary fundamental research in physics and its interfaces. The scientific ...

Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other ...

Our colleagues from the Navy Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division have published a third edition of their Annual Report. This edition includes the following: an organizational chart; scientific ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

The first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere has been officially opened. The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is built in a disused gold mine in Australia, and the aim is to ...

Could a spaceship actually travel to Saturn during the time it takes to earn a master’s degree? Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) think so, and the solution is embedded in a ...

A laboratory experiment in Hungary has spotted an anomaly in radioactive decay that could be the signature of a previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature, physicists say—if the finding ...