Increased solar activity is causing colorful auroras to occur in unexpected places. A large solar storm is set to reach Earth ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

A recent study published in Nature combines data from two major experiments - NOvA in the United States and T2K in Japan - to observe with unprecedented precision how neutrinos, particles capable ...

Researchers have discovered quantum oscillations inside an insulating material, overturning long-held assumptions. Their work at the National Magnetic Field Laboratory suggests that the effect ...

This paper describes the eccentricity, amplitude, phase shift, angular momentum, polarization, radial path, and orbital ...

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...