Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...

Scientists have long believed that foam behaves like glass, with bubbles locked into place. New simulations reveal that bubbles never truly settle and instead keep moving through many possible ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

Engineers have created a device that generates incredibly tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on a microchip—and it could ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

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The speed of light is one of the most fundamental constants in physics, yet it has never been directly measured in one direction. Instead, scientists rely on assumptions built into how time and ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly through motion. That insight laid the foundation for thermodynamics, the ...

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