German physicists control electronics with light pulses
German scientists have discovered a method to control atomically thin semiconductors using ultrashort pulses of terahertz light, rather…
Chinese scientists detect rare quantum friction in folded graphene
Friction, though familiar in everyday life, remains a complex phenomenon—especially at the microscopic level. Scientists long believed it…
Humans survived harmful radiation after Earth’s magnetic field weakened
“The skies 41,000 years ago may have been both spectacular and threatening. When we realized this, we wanted…
US scientists shatter 165-year-old physics rule for energy breakthroughs
A research team at Penn State has reported a significant violation of Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, a…
Scotland’s LoganAir eyes zero-emission flights, partners with ZeroAvia
Scotland’s largest regional airline, LoganAir, is taking early steps toward adopting hydrogen propulsion for commercial flights. During the…
US researchers solve tokamak plasma mystery with elusive ‘voids’ discovery
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have published a new theoretical model that offers a potential…
First-ever liquid carbon created with lasers to boost fusion research
A team of scientists, led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has successfully created…
US shakes up fusion research with 180,000°F super-hot plasma test
Researchers in the US have revealed that heat does not flow as expected between different materials when they…
‘Radioactive’ rodent swarm halts nuclear reactor construction in UK
Britain’s flagship nuclear power project has encountered an unexpected safety hazard. Hundreds of rats scuttle through work zones,…
70 million-year-old long-necked dinosaur fossil discovered in Texas
A team of budding paleontologists from Sul Ross State University has unearthed a giant fossilized bone of a…