After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

Following the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, lateral flow assays (LFAs)—the category of test strips in which the ...

A device that relies on quantum effects and oversized atoms may be a more reliable way to measure temperature that doesn't ...

A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet ...

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like ...

The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

Crystalline alloys used in motors today lose some energy through heat, but glass-like metals could solve this engineering ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

STEM-ology, a monthly series of themed science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) events for all ages, continues ...