Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern life, but even the most efficient power lines lose energy along the way. For decades, ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

This video explains how semiconductors work and how their electrical properties are controlled using band gaps and doping.

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are fascinating states of matter that emerge when atoms or molecules are cooled to extremely ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

Ing. Jörg Volpp explores how surface tension in pure metals behaves at high temperatures, particularly in the boiling range ...

The United States has partnered with AMD in a $1 billion initiative to build two supercomputers aimed at advancing research ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...