Soon people will be able to use satellite technology and artificial intelligence to track dangerous soot pollution in their ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.

Foundational research is paving the way for next-generation quantum sensors. Physicists in Australia and the United Kingdom have found a way to reshape quantum uncertainty, offering a new method that ...

Researchers have captured for the first time and in exquisite detail pictures of NMDA receptors in a fully open conformation.

When it comes to brain proteins, small changes can make a dramatic difference. Researchers studying NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors, which are essential for learning, memory and moment-by-moment ...

A simple yet intuitive approach to tracking tiny, quantum mechanical particles could inform the next breakthrough in quantum technology.

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The best teachers really grasp the concepts they're educating students on. There's a reason for that and you can harness the memory power of teaching, too.

This study presents a water jigging method that recovers high-purity concrete aggregates from construction waste, addressing ...