What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them ...
Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...
Called the Lévy walk (or in some cases the Lévy flight) after mathematician Paul Lévy, it is a type of random wandering that ...
High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.
A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...
Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can revolutionise our understanding of these crucial materials. Clare Sansom reports ...
When do amorphous solids lose their stability? Physicists at the University of Konstanz provide a model – with a box full of building blocks.
Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered a way to rearrange graphite's atomic layers, potentially revolutionizing ...
Australia ranks among the best in the world for air quality, but with worsening climate change and an ever extending bushfire ...
Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...
Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.
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