Distinguishing between brown dwarfs and giant planets has confused astronomers, but a clear separating factor has finally been identified.

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have demonstrated that quantum entanglement between pairs of atomic defects in diamond can sharpen nanoscale sensors well beyond ...

Researchers have proposed that a newly identified class of magnetic materials could extend the zero-resistance currents of superconductors to electron spins. Publishing their calculations in Physical ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

Physicists show that magnetoelastic coupling, present in nearly all magnets, can generate skyrmion arrays without crystal ...

Skyrmions, in which electron spins inside a magnet are arranged like vortices, are a key structure in next-generation spintronics technology. KAIST researchers have shown that skyrmions can form using ...

A magnetic crystal that was thought to behave like a quantum system, CeMgAl11O19, revealed something even stranger: a new ...

Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars' Clearest evidence yet that giant planets spin faster than their cosmic lookalikes. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have ...

David Carlson of Franklin is a professor emeritus of philosophy and religion. Columns such as this, published on a printed ...

Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up ...