Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits ...

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the ...

The physical nature of light is an intriguing scientific mystery as it behaves like a wave in free space and as a particle ...

Cherenkov dosimetry is an emerging technique used to verify the dose delivered during radiotherapy, by capturing Cherenkov ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

Is black a colour? Black isn’t in the rainbow, but where does it fit in the colour spectrum? What makes something appear black? An expert explains how we perceive black.

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

New method promises enhanced understanding of chemical reactions and material properties by applying a Nobel-prize winning technique in spectroscopy.

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from. New research may have ...

xLight, a US startup aiming to commercialize particle accelerator driven free electron lasers (FELs) for use in semiconductor production, says it has raised $40 million in a series B round of venture ...