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

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers have ...

Abundance, a book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, argues that many of America's most damaging crises are the result of ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

Physicists from UC Santa Cruz have received $555,000 to build lab-made diamonds to detect conditions inside fusion power ...

Physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative, KM3NeT, built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for ...

At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing industry hailed "spectacular" ...

Classical Mechanics:** Newton’s second law (F = ma) explains the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. The law ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...