It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, PPPL ...

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

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

For many, it's the start of a new semester of physics labs. That means there are new students in that introductory course. Of course, no one is really 100 percent ready to start these labs---but ...

These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are.

Former PPPL engineer Justin Bradley alleges the lab skipped decades of safety inspections, falsified records, and fired him ...

Messing around with hand-tracking is really fun the first couple times you try it, and seeing my twiddling fingers represented in VR really served up some of the first ‘wow’ moments for me. Despite ...