The annual Sandcastle Contest transforms the beach into a temporary outdoor art gallery, with teams creating elaborate sand ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a wealth of molecules that could serve as the ...

Time crystals, a collection of particles that "tick"—or move back and forth in repeating cycles—were first theorized and then ...

Now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to use terahertz light to watch a ...

A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Michigan officials are warning people to avoid deceptive shelf ice along Great lakes, and to take precautions elsewhere when venturing onto lakes, streams.

Measurements of seismic waves over many years suggest the Earth's core is deformed and reshaped by conditions of extreme heat ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...