Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...

The constancy of the speed of light is a pillar of modern physics, but questions persist about its absolute universality.

One way that chemists recycle CO 2 into valuable products is through a process called electrochemical reduction, where a stream of CO 2 gas moves through an electrolysis cell that breaks the CO 2 and ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in ...

Labs globally, including EAST in China and JET in Oxfordshire, have made significant advancements in fusion research, breaking previous records. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence ...

A single sewing needle is tiny enough to slip through fabric unnoticed, yet physics suggests that if it somehow struck Earth at light speed, the result would look less like a pinprick and more like a ...

A blazar is an extraordinarily bright object with a supermassive black hole at its core. Some of the matter falling into the ...

How do plants use sunlight to make their own food? We use light for more than just to see. We can use light’s energy to make electricity, clean water, even dry our clothes. Plants use sunlight to make ...

The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding ...

Most of us can relate to being worried about inflation: we are all concerned about the cost of living and what our political leaders are doing to address it. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that we ...