A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

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

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

STEM-ology, a monthly series of themed science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) events for all ages, continues this month at the University of Wyoming, with events including Toddler ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only ...

When we want to weigh something, the process is simple. We place it on a weighing machine or on a traditional balance. The ...

Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same ...

In the late 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation, burdened by its guilt for the role it played in the Manhattan Project, funded ...

Professor Shanhui Fan and a team at Stanford University have built what they call “moonlight panels,” devices that generate ...