Moore’s Law has shifted toward advanced packaging over the past few years, but the limits of that approach are just now coming into focus. AI and HPC designs are growing larger ...

A $40 billion plan proposes massive desalination plants to save the Colorado River, but critics call it "crazy." ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

Then I started seeing Halle Berry — admittedly, a celebrity I have an unreasonable level of affection for — on my timeline looking happy and healthy and talking about how Pendulum probiotics helped ...

The original story “ Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with ...

The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions. In the first few microseconds ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or gravitational fields, which could explain a fundamental issue in physics: the hierarchy problem. There are several ongoing ...

This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

“Four minutes is too long.” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare skin. This full-body massacre wasn’t the result of a camping trip ...