News Time travel is proven possible — but we’ll likely never be able to build the machine, author says April 28, 2017
News LHCb finds a deviation from the Standard Model which may hint at a new particle April 19, 2017 - Updated on May 14, 2021
Chemistry World’s tiniest race will pit nanocars against each other in Toulouse this April March 27, 2017
Astrophysics Researchers found a supermassive black hole choking on its meal March 16, 2017 - Updated on July 5, 2017
News NASA plans to use repellent coatings to coax liquids into flowing even when there is no “down” March 10, 2017
News Single-atom magnets used to create data storage one million times more dense than regular hard disks March 9, 2017 - Updated on July 28, 2023
Materials Czech researchers turn graphene sheets into the first stable non-metallic magnets March 7, 2017 - Updated on May 5, 2020
Geology Earth’s mantle is much hotter than we thought, scientists learn March 6, 2017 - Updated on September 21, 2023
News Four-stroke internal combustion engine turned into a hydrogen reactor February 20, 2017 - Updated on May 16, 2019
News Thermal levitation can lift any object in the air, unlike other methods that work on magnetization or optical light February 17, 2017
News Blueprint for large scale supercomputer could open the road for billion-qubit machine, and the secrets of the universe with it February 2, 2017
News Hydrogen turned into a metal for the first time. Technology and spaceflight might never be the same January 27, 2017 - Updated on June 11, 2023
News D-Wave upgrades quantum chip to 2,000 qubits, gets first customer for its $15 million machine January 26, 2017
News Scientists learn why hair is almost as strong as steel. One immediate application is a hairy body armor January 19, 2017 - Updated on February 15, 2019
News Tiny aluminium drum cooled beyond quantum limit proves we can make things even colder. Possibly down to absolute zero January 12, 2017 - Updated on January 9, 2020
Biology Scientists believe they’ve identified the source of the mysterious sound coming from the Mariana Trench December 20, 2016
Electronics Mixing Silly Putty with graphene creates incredibly sensitive pressure sensors, scientists find December 12, 2016
Electronics Scientists need you to join the Phi-Lambda mission and make quantum computers work December 9, 2016 - Updated on May 1, 2023
News Why the Earth’s core is two and a half years younger than the crust December 8, 2016 - Updated on April 24, 2019
News Obi-Wan Kenobi, the goggles-wearing parrot, teaches us a thing or two about flight physics December 6, 2016
News Water trapped in carbon nanotubes starts freezing at the temperature it should be boiling November 30, 2016
News Bendy artificial muscle is made of pure nylon, still stronger than you November 28, 2016 - Updated on November 29, 2016
Offbeat In 1975, a physicist co-authored a paper with his cat. He did it for a very good reason November 28, 2016
Physics It’s official: NASA’s “impossible” EM drive has been peer-reviewed and published November 24, 2016
News Laser stopwatch measures atomic events with trillionth of a billionth of a second accuracy November 10, 2016 - Updated on November 12, 2016
Environment Cooking nuclear waste into glass and ceramic materials could provide safe, efficient containment November 4, 2016
News Newly proposed particles might solve five of physics’ biggest problems, including dark matter October 31, 2016 - Updated on November 2, 2016
Features Squished-booms: looking at the behavior of underwater explosions October 7, 2016 - Updated on January 29, 2021