WashU physicists build quantum sensors in boron nitride sheets to study magnetism and stress under extreme pressure.

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

The study published last month in the science journal, Nature Physics, explains how ice can produce electricity, similar to ...

Human activities continue to pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, raising global ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on ...

Could TRAPPIST-1e hold life? Webb observations show the planet may retain an atmosphere 40 light-years from Earth.

A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed ...

The blood moon in the Earth's shadow is created by Rayleigh scattering and refraction of sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere – ...