Medicine & TechnologyResearchers have accomplished the high-precision measurement of a thorium isotope's nuclear transition - opening the possibilities for more accurate nuclear clocks.
A collaborative team creates a very small device that can detect magnetic fields. The Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) can be applied in medicine, topology, and research for new materials.
The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, known as Origami, has been used as a reference in fabricating a paper device that works as a mechanical switch.
Dr. Katie Mack, theoretical cosmologist and Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, shares five different scenarios on how the universe might end, in the latest episode of the Science Focus Podcast Monday, August 24.
Some fluids exhibit a solid-like response to stress, suddenly thickening and becoming solids for a moment upon disturbance - and scientists have captured the exact moment it happens.
Scientists are using aerodynamics and physics to measure how droplets spread in various environments. They've discovered how dependent respiratory droplets are on the weather.