Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the institution ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

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Researchers in Canada are developing a low-cost orthovoltage radiotherapy system for use in low-resource and geographically remote regions ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

Physicists working on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are the first to report the production of top quark–antiquark pairs in collisions involving heavy nuclei. By colliding ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...

Abnormal versions of synchronization patterns known as “Arnold’s tongues” have been observed in a femtosecond fibre laser that generates oscillating light pulses. While these unconventional patterns ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

Even more unexpectedly, I have been able to make tennis-ball towers consisting of layers of four balls (4 n + 1) and five ...