Black holes are known for ferocious gravitational fields. Anything wandering too close, even light, will be swallowed up. But other forces may be at...
IntroductionElectroconvulsive therapy has a public relations problem. The treatment, which sends electric currents through the brain to induce a brief seizure, has barbaric, inhumane...
Researchers at CERN and the University of Tokyo have independently laser-cooled clouds of positronium. The breakthrough should make it easier to make precision measurements...
Physicists in the US and China have devised a technique for making reliable measurements of the magnetic properties of materials held under very high...
The news doesn’t go long without some kind of superconductor announcement these days. Unfortunately, these come in several categories: materials that require warmer temperatures...
