Now, the team believes that because time crystals and quasicrystals are sensitive to quantum forces like magnetism, they could serve as long-lasting quantum sensors that never need recharging. This, ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Negative triangularity is changing fusion energy! The SMART tokamak's new plasma shape could lead to compact, efficient reactors. See how it's shocking experts!

QUADCOIL is a groundbreaking computer code that simplifies the design of stellarator magnets, ensuring plasma shapes remain ...

Quantum mechanics is used to propose that black hole singularities could be the start of a new phase, rather than a point of destruction.

Mar. 11, 2025 — Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a ...

A new technique in detector fabrication could change high-energy physics forever. By using additive manufacturing, ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for ...

Light is closely integrated with our intellectual, philosophical and scientific discourse. The exact nature of light has remained a mystery since we stepped on earth. Newton postulated the corpuscular ...