By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

It's hard enough to hit an average field goal in the NFL, let alone go down in the record books for the longest field goals in NFL history. Between the immense noise from the crowd and the group of ...

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 ...