For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

Photonic says it’s trying to build the world’s first highly scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. It’s doing so with a ...

Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Ever wondered why winter mornings are so foggy? Science explains how cold air, moisture, and calm winds combine to turn water ...

Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s strategic partnerships with private fusion companies and public research ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using ...