For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

In controlled experiments, engineers have shown that electricity can be transmitted through the air using highly controlled ...

By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it's building ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

For seventy years, one stubborn physics problem has stood between fusion’s promise and practical reactors. That puzzle, how ...