The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

This early prototype was just 10 cm wide, but Lawrence’s innovation was so impactful that it earned him the 1939 Nobel Prize ...

If you have ever had a PET scan at a hospital or heard about radiation treatment for cancer or brain tumours, there's a good chance a cyclotron was ...

Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, scientists wonder: does reality exist on its own . . . or just when you ...

In 1905, Einstein established relativity under the condition of denying the absolute space-time valid in Newtonian mechanics. In those days, the quantum theory was also established by accepting De ...

For a chosen electron and positron velocity of 100 meters/second, for example, the de Broglie wavelength is 7.28 microns.

Microrobots formed in droplets could enable precision-targeted drug delivery, improving on I.V. drug delivery that sends only ...

Scientists demonstrate a fluid that couples electric and magnetic order at room temperature, introducing a soft multiferroic ...

Imagine two flashlights aimed at each other; do their beams collide? Nope! In everyday physics, light is too chill for drama.

Using China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), researchers have uncovered new magnetic field structures in a rare class of binary star systems known as spider pulsars, ...

The magnetic moment of the muon—a tiny property of a tiny particle—has long puzzled physicists. Experiments and theory haven’t quite matched up, leaving open the thrilling possibility of discovering ...