Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the hottest place on Earth for the briefest of moments during an experiment. Now, it can be one of the brightest places ...

Liquid nitrogen isn’t exactly an everyday material, but it’s acquired conveniently enough to be used in extreme overclocking experiments, classroom demonstrations, chemistry and physics ...

Good educational reform listens to teachers. When the State Examinations Commission faced problems with staffing the proposed ...

Potomac, Maryland, native Christopher Williams is one of the seven astronauts and cosmonauts currently aboard the ...

Aurélie Hourlier‑Fargette, winner of the 2025 JPhys Materials Early Career Award, discusses the inspirations behind her interdisciplinary work on bubble assemblies and foam-based materials ...

Cables underneath New York City are teeming with entangled quantum particles of light thanks to Qunnect, a company that has ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

Explore every Star Wars game released and cancelled between 2006 and 2012, from The Force Unleashed and The Old Republic to ...

Experience hands-on fun this spring break at Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, NC, learning, play, and adventure for kids of ...

Weak shock waves triggered by micro-cracks in the adhesive layer of tape cause it to screech when being unspooled from its ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...