Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls of water in the open ocean to ghostly ripples inside atoms. What has ...

Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

One of the biggest problems facing modern microelectronics is that computer chips can no longer be made arbitrarily smaller ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over ...

Application security agent rewrites developer prompts into secure prompts to prevent coding agents from generating vulnerable ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.