OpenStar Technologies' "Junior" prototype proves that levitated dipole reactors can stabilize superheated plasma.

On Dec. 25, 2002, Lewis Kay was in his lab at the University of Toronto, devising new ways to observe the invisible machinery of life. Or trying to, at least. The large molecules Kay has spent his ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with international partners, have uncovered surprising behavior in a specially engineered crystal. Composed of tantalum ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

The challengeScientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day ...

Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

For decades, cobalt has served as a benchmark ferromagnet. Its crystal structure and magnetic properties have been extensively documented. However, the new findings show that cobalt hosts a rich ...

Celebrate British Science Week with a family-friendly Science Day at Weymouth’s historic Nothe Fort on 7 March, featuring hands-on ...

The Signal Path] shows us how to recreate a classic science experiment to measure the weight of an electron. Things are ...

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...