Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

In controlled experiments, engineers have shown that electricity can be transmitted through the air using highly controlled ...

At the heart of our sun, fusion is unfolding. As hydrogen atoms merge to form helium, they emit energy, producing the heat ...

A new discovery in physics can be exciting, but are scientists declaring quantum victory too soon? Many breakthroughs aren't ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

Electricity is not a policy construct. It is physics – and the physics have not changed since Michael Faraday and the steam ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

This device is known as a Josephson junction. It’s the foundational building block of quantum computers and advances of it ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...