Pigeons may sense Earth’s magnetic field using their inner ear, sending signals to brain areas that help with navigation and ...

The vestibular system, a set of structures in the inner ears that helps with balance, may grant the birds their special ability ...

Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries ...

Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, usually only at very low temperatures. Most ...

A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation ...

Some fusion machines chase brute-force power. Wendelstein 7-X chose elegance—3D magnetic geometry sculpted to tame plasma for ...

A UC Irvine team uncovered a never-before-seen quantum phase formed when electrons and holes pair up and spin in unison, creating a glowing, liquid-like state of matter. By blasting a custom-made ...

Dog crushes fruit with a sledgehammer in a funny experiment.

For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated a high-temperature superconducting diode effect, which allows a ...

This fall, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis "for the discovery of ...

Odd radio waves emanating from the ice don’t fit our model of particle behavior. Could they be a sign of dark matter?

Even as quantum navigation emerges as a legitimate alternative to satellite-based navigation, the satellites themselves are ...