In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

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Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

The parabolic flight travels up and down several times on a trajectory resembling an arch, providing 22 seconds of zero ...

In this video, I share a fun and surprising science experiment featuring cocoa powder and water. Watch as I dip the cocoa ...

Sometimes it’s necessary to break a few diamonds to figure out what’s happening on an alien planet’s surface. Or at least diamonds in diamond anvil cells, devices designed to squeeze materials to ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

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Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...

© S. Schütt This photo shows the upper part of the water tornado model. The acrylic glas tank has a diameter of 50 centimetres and is illuminated with LED strips ...

Scientists studying “space ice” say the amorphous, low-density material’s structure is less similar to water than previous research has shown, decreasing the odds of theories involving a “panspermia” ...