Spin waves are considered to be promising candidates for a new form of electronics. Instead of electrons, the focus here is ...

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With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

The flux capacitor is the essential component of Doc Brown's time machine. Without it, time travel isn't possible. Here's how it works.

Yesterday afternoon here at the International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow, I had a brief chat with Enrico Saggese, the controversial new commissioner of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Saggese ...

If you watched Back to the Future over the holiday weekend and wished the flux capacitor was a real thing so you could travel through time, we have sorta good news. Scientists from Australia and ...