Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

Many brilliant minds have shaped the world of mathematics, but one name stands out above all: Archimedes of Syracuse. Known ...

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Ever seen a seven-cylinder car engine? Neither have we, yet these strange engines rumble through cargo ships, powerful ...

A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more ...

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Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Though the principle is not violated, a new way of fudging its restrictions could lead to improvements in ultra-precise ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...