A recent study by researchers from Spain, Finland, and Canada uncovered the way in which ultrasonic waves transport ...

A California-based company is converting stored heat into electricity. Heat2Power (H2P) uses thermophotovoltaic (TPV) ...

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors ...

Scientists in Canada have invented an electricity-generating slime that could revolutionize medicine, robotics, and even how we power our steps.

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, introduced by Prof. Fabio Sauli in 1997, have become essential tracking devices in ...

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

Seeing the process in action is almost magical, but it works by using the effects the plasma has on the air against itself.

The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in ...

Electric sparks are used for welding, powering electronics, killing germs or for igniting the fuel in some car engines. Despite their usefulness, they are hard to control in open space, they split ...

In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University ...

By twisting layers of graphene, researchers discovered a unique electronic crystal where electrons freeze in place yet allow ...

In a first, US researchers have observed fractional excitons, a new class of quantum particles, that were only theoretically ...