The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

Foams are everywhere: soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise. For decades, scientists ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

If ever spotted in the emptiness of space, according to theoretical physicist Eugeny Babichev of the University of ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot principle, the second law of thermodynamics, was developed for large, ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Flux physics refers to continuous change in physical quantities, including energy transfer and dynamic equilibria. Flux is central to many areas of formal and Big-P physics, though intuitive ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...