New infrared observations tie the ice giant’s small moons and narrow rings to a past encounter with a visiting object from ...

Figure 1: An electron undergoes a variety of scattering events in a conductor. When momentum-conserving interactions with other electrons (blue) dominate over momentum-relaxing interactions with ...

A memory phenomenon known as the anomalous Kovacs effect has been experimentally observed in a granular system for the first time. A physical system can carry traces of its past, with its previous ...

A new formalism yields the quantities that characterize a conventional superconductor without adjustable parameters. In a typical superconductor, 휉 and 휆 are tens to hundreds of nanometers, distances ...

Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the event horizons of black holes. Making waves. Researchers have created a ...

Stars collapsing directly into black holes might explain the surprising number of merging black holes of about 10 solar ...

Photographer Chris Elkinton set off one windy December day to Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington, hoping to capture images of the rough, roiling seas and colliding waves during a “king tide.

Theory and experiments suggest that the mysterious fractures that appear when a brittle material is compressed result from a hidden buildup of internal tension. Bound to break. When concrete (shown ...