Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

New experiments demonstrate how to detect hidden objects like submarines or buried treasure using the power of acoustical physics.

Can we reveal objects that are hidden in environments completely opaque to the human eye? With conventional imaging ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

Using newly developed mathematical methods, scientists found a way to detect the position of objects hidden in opaque ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left ...

A powerful new AI tool called Diag2Diag is revolutionizing fusion research by filling in missing plasma data with synthetic ...

My previous article in the Sept 17 issue of the Telluride Daily Planet contained an error arising from misinterpretation of a temperature measurement (K) kelvin, edited as kilowatts. My apologies ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...