In a surprising twist, a graduate student at UMass Amherst discovered a strange new fluid behavior that seems to defy thermodynamics. While experimenting with oil, water, and magnetized nickel ...

A scientist gives an answer to a long-standing question in theoretical glass physics: what does it mean to be an order parameter for an inherently out-of-equilibrium system? Starting from first ...

Bendng the laws of thermodynamics, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a surprising ...

"The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience—the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people—is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant ...

While you may think that a larger lens would be able to produce fire with moonlight as it can collect more light, or focus it ...

During a routine set of experiments being conducted in the lab, Anthony Raykh, a graduate student at the University of ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade points out the likely illegality of these actions, noting First Amendment concerns and the practical effect of denying Smith “the right to counsel of his choice.

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. has achieved a major milestone in pursuing clean, on-demand nuclear power by assembling the first reactor core hardware for its ZEUS microreactor. This half-scale solid core ...