An experiment has finally revealed how it might feel to touch a quantum superfluid.Physicists dunked a special, finger-sized probe into an isotope of helium cooled to just a smidge over absolute zero,...

If you saw grains of sand rolling uphill you might be forgiven for thinking you were watching a Christopher Nolan movie. But scientists have recently figured out how a sand-like material can...

Until the late 19th century, the success of criminal investigations largely hung on witness reports and (often extorted) confessions. A lack of scientific tools meant investigators needed advanced deductive reasoning abilities –...

Late last century, the Joint European Torus (JET) near Oxford, UK, churned out 22 megajoules of energy in what was, at the time, a record in fusion power.Now, experimental upgrades have brought...