Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule. This ...

The agency did not complete a practice countdown for a flight that would be the first to send people around the moon in more than 50 years. By Kenneth Chang The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, ...

A landmark global study suggests that tobacco smoking, infection and alcohol consumption are the leading causes of preventable cancers The public will choose the winner of the People’s Choice award in ...

New in JNeurosci, Mary Schneider and Alexander Converse, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led an interdisciplinary study to explore how prenatal alcohol and stress exposure affect rhesus ...