At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows ...

Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

For the last 80 years, the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), which describes all electromagnetic interactions, has been a cornerstone of the standard model, withstanding the scrutiny of ...

The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, scientists report in Nature Neuroscience.

Prominences are cool plasma structures extending several thousand kilometers in the Sun’s hot corona. Some persist for weeks.

Event display showing nineteen charged-particle tracks (yellow lines) recorded by the ATLAS experiment during proton-oxygen collisions in July 2025 ...

Air pollution is often monitored using instruments that are accurate but can be bulky, costly, or difficult to reuse continuously after particle ...

A team of physicists has designed quantum algorithms that can model one of the most elusive behaviors in nature: a photon ...

Researchers are analyzing the mystery behind the stability of solar prominences in the solar corona and their significance ...

No theory could explain the slight excess of far-ultraviolet light in the Milky Way until now.

Researchers have developed a way to flip time to move backward in a quantum system. This level of control could lead to ...