The second law of thermodynamics demands that if we want to make a clock more precise – thereby reducing the disorder, or entropy, in the system – we must add energy to it. Any increase in energy, ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...

Satyendra Nath Bose didn’t just make huge contributions to quantum science, he also welcomed women into what was at the time a male-dominated field. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and Rupamanjari Ghosh discuss ...

Researchers in Japan have accelerated muons into the most precise, high-intensity beam to date, reaching energies high as 100 keV. The achievement could enable next-generation experiments such as ...

The final result from the Muon g-2 Experiment has exceeded all expectations, achieving a precision likely to remain unmatched ...

Researchers find a “cool” way to mitigate background water signals and demonstrate non-invasive blood ion monitoring in living mice ...

Phenomenon also occurs in critical systems found in statistical physics and is directly linked to the animal’s growth ...

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Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has unveiled a bioluminescent dress that features 125 million living algae. The garment ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

New architecture could be used to create tailored devices that emit or receive only certain frequencies of sound ...

Flexible-working options as well as diversity, equity and inclusion reporting could help dismantle entrenched barriers ...