Former elementary school teacher Matt Shurtleff — known to many students as “Matt the Mad Scientist” — demonstrated how sound waves move using water and lasers.

Fermilab's FAST/IOTA accelerator test facility has successfully accelerated and stored its first proton beams.

Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same ...

Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research Every year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and ...

There are many stretches of the book that people who read too much about the evils of phones will recognize—the chapter on ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they ...

StellFoundry, led by the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and made up of around 30 researchers from at least 10 organizations, will also allow researchers to run separate ...

Long-established in accelerator physics, bent crystals are now being explored as tools to measure the fundamental properties ...

This emerging field of space radiobiology has strong and perhaps unexpected links to the far better established discipline of ...