Earth's oceans are mysterious, largely unexplored places, but the enormous oceans of Neptune and Uranus have them beat.

The speed of light is often regarded as the ultimate cosmic speed limit, but researchers have now managed to slow it down ...

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Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...

The neutrino was 30 times more energetic than any other previously observed particle of its kind. Scientists still don’t know ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Groundwater is water stored beneath the Earth's surface in the spaces between rocks and sediments, collectively known as aquifers.

Scientists have found a way to achieve negative refraction—where light bends the "wrong" way—using carefully arranged atomic ...

Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with ...

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays—without the ...

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.