Observatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fleeting ...

Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual ...

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons ...

If it doesn’t, it never was.” What most people don’t tell you is that if you let that something go from exactly the right ...

Scientists swapped three of the probe’s heating devices for ones that use less energy, and they might do the same with ...

Physical oceanographers might have a misconception about the anatomy of mixing at realistic Reynolds numbers in this important type of shear instability.

What do you do when the observation you need comes around once a year? Well, preparation is key, but this is the awkward truth about finding another Earth. When a planet crosses the face of its star, ...