For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a 'lump soliton': an extremely stable packet of light waves which can ...

NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Earth's core might be layered like an onion, according to a new study that looked at the anomalous nature of waved in the ...

Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, ...

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland have made a microscopic “ocean” on a silicon chip to miniaturise the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ’s School of Mathematics and ...

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO—has completed its first science run. The Quantum Enhanced ...

A new project turning waves from the ocean into renewable energy has launched at the Port of Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. Eight blue steel floats that appear to be small boats were launched by Eco ...

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