A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

The world’s smallest temporary pacemaker is self-powered, optically controlled and dissolves when it’s no longer needed ...

Nonlocal correlations that define quantum entanglement could be reconciled with Einstein’s theory of relativity if space–time had two temporal dimensions. That is the implication of new theoretical ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable the flow of information between the brain and an external device such as a computer, ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism ...

Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the institution ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

A quarter of a century after he started writing his “Critical Point” column, Robert P Crease reveals his underlying message ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...