Conductivity measurements provide fast, continuous, inexpensive indications of changing electrical and material properties.

Gamma-rays arising from a black hole merger would be a landmark finding because black holes are expected to merge "cleanly," without producing any sort of light

While genuine machine consciousness is still years into the future, we are beginning to see computers make choices that previously demanded a human’s input

Three recent studies reveal details about meteor impacts, giant planets and cosmic particle accelerators

The prediction was that "Cooper pairs" of electrons in a superconductor could exist in two possible states

“This has been this puzzle for many years, and it finally has a suitably beautiful explanation."

Researchers examined 32 low-mass stars using this technological upgrade at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii

The movies help scientists understand interactions of intense laser light with matter

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers control a promising new way to encode electrons

The observatory will receive a five-year, $35 million grant for its continued operation and management

While the detection of the waves was announced in February, scientists still don't know exactly where the waves are coming from

Probing the 'color' interactions among quarks tests a theoretical concept of nature's strongest force to pave a way toward mapping protons' 3-D internal structure