WashU physicists build quantum sensors in boron nitride sheets to study magnetism and stress under extreme pressure.

Ok, as I understand it we have no way to determine the speed which we are moving at in an absolute sense.<BR><BR>We can say "We are moving 20 miles per hour in the car relative to the road" or "The ...

This research suggests that even chaotic, unpredictable phenomena, like waves on a shore or the beating of a heart, can be ...

For more than a century, scientists have relied on separate tools to measure the three core building blocks of electricity: ...

Most of us intuitively feel that reality ought to exist just fine on its own when we aren’t looking. If a tree falls in a forest when no one is around to hear the crash, the air still vibrates with ...

In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the ...

It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

On April 7, particle physicists all over the world were excited and energized by the announcement of a measurement of the behavior of muons—the heavier, unstable subatomic cousins of electrons—that ...