Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, inside a ring of machinery nearly four miles across that has been running since the 1970s, physicists have been chasing something they could not see, could not ...

In a grandfather clock, a pendulum swings back and forth and this periodic motion is maintained using the energy stored in ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered that in collectives of moving fire ants, rippling "waves" of density and activity are ...

The vibrations of atoms in a crystal generate one type of rotation, an intrinsic spin-like trait called angular momentum. For ...

Ball sports wouldn’t be nearly as interesting if everything went in straight lines, and we have physics to thank.

Scientists have directly watched angular momentum move through a crystal for the very first time — and discovered a bizarre ...

Researchers discovered that atomic rotations inside a crystal can unexpectedly flip direction while still obeying the laws of ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from HZDR and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, for ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story.

Andy is a seasoned technology journalist with more than 15 years experience in the mobile industry, writing for Digital Trends, Wired, and more. During that time he has reviewed hundreds of ...

We extract more than 100 billion tonnes of raw materials from Earth each year, then throw most of them away. The “circular economy” offers a different approach: instead of the linear “take-make-waste” ...