Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

The bandgap, i.e. the energy gap between the highest lying valence and the lowest lying conduction band, is a defining ...

Luke Benavitz, a graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, collaborating with IfA astronomer Jeffrey Reep, has developed new models showing that time-dependent changes in ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise. The fundamental constants ...

"It may take decades before we find out what really happens in black holes." Reports of the singularity's demise may have been premature. Earlier this year, new research suggested a potential solution ...