Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

The efficient conversion of solar energy into storable forms of chemical energy is the dream of many engineers. Nature found ...

Quantum mechanics plays a role in the process of photosynthesis. Engineers have long sought efficient ways to convert solar ...

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one ...

Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

For the first time ever, scientists have managed to snap a picture of an electron’s shape while it moves through a solid.

The Hopkins Justice Collective argues that the Applied Physics Laboratory’s work often contributes to the infliction of violence and war. As the nation’s first research institution, Johns Hopkins has ...