Batteries fail over time because their internal materials do not stay in place, and ...

Fusion scientists have solved a long-standing mystery inside tokamaks, the donut-shaped machines designed to harness fusion ...

A LEGO brick is not smart. It doesn't compute. It doesn't plug in. It just fits. A team of Georgia Tech researchers has ...

Grain boundaries determine how strong a material is: the more grain boundaries, the stronger the material. Grain boundaries move through a material, but how this movement works had until now remained ...

The EPA is adding microplastics and antidepressants to a list of drinking water contaminants for possible future regulation.

For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts ...

In physics, some waves behave in a surprising way: instead of spreading out and fading, they hold their shape as they travel ...

A new model suggests dark matter may be more complex than a single substance, potentially reshaping how scientists interpret hidden structures across the universe.

Measuring plastic particles carried on Cozumel’s sea breezes and ocean currents reveals how simple physics shapes the ...

Scientists working deep beneath the Antarctic ice have been tracking “ghost particles” known as neutrinos, which pass ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

A team led by scientists at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester has developed the first ...