At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of ...

The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids ...

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The Electric Factory Above Our Heads Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When ...

The University of Cincinnati research team developed a "sound bulb" to help visually impaired students in physics experiments ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

UCSB researchers develop a light-powered tactile display where digital graphics can be seen and physically felt.

Both of Friday’s Astronomical Unit lectures are related to celestial phenomena not discernible to human senses. David ...