A young visitor interacts with a mechanical experiment inside a science museum, demonstrating basic physics concepts such as ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

Physicists have developed a new theoretical framework which unifies a wide array of seemingly unrelated "Mpemba effects": ...

Operating a massive commercial rig requires a deep understanding of the physics of motion and the relationship between the tractor and the trailer. Unlike a passenger car, these vehicles are comprised ...

A Frontier of Physics and Material Science Exploring New Phases of Matter. We’re living in a pretty exciting time for ...

Turbulent flows, long thought to follow fixed rules of energy transfer, may be more flexible than previously believed.

Faint flickers in the night sky have puzzled astronomers for decades. These subtle changes in brightness come from violent ...

Thornapple Kellogg — Tasked to design and build their own roller coaster, sixth-graders Tristyn Moore and Ethan Wilkins were ...

Friction requires contact. Two surfaces rub together. Energy is lost. Heat is generated. Things slow down. The universe makes sense again. Except… now it doesn’t. Because researchers have decided—very ...

Large-eddy simulations provide a new view into how to produce and study vortices with a central eye and eye wall inside a ...