A less-lethal weapon is engineered to stop at the skin, and a pellet is engineered to go through it. Here is the physics of ...

The High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), which began trial operations on July 21, has enabled Chinese scientists to observe an extremely rare isotope, hafnium-153. The observation ...

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For over a century, electric sparks fired into water have produced explosions stronger than science can explain. An 84-year-old Indian-origin physicist claims he has finally solved the mystery, and ...

Predator vs. Planet of the Apes #1 launches July 29 as Marvel's first-ever crossover of the two franchises. Greg Pak grounds ...

When physics systems are more than background math, they become toys—letting you improvise solutions, topple structures, and chain together glorious domino effects. The picks below lean on simulated ...

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time ...

An errant piece of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon, and astronomers are eagerly awaiting the chance to ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), collisions between relatively light oxygen and neon nuclei may be producing matter ...

Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin.

A Southwest Research Institute and University of Texas at San Antonio experiment has passed a critical NASA review, ...