At 200 micrometers thick, an order of magnitude thinner than any micro-fan, YPlasma's DBD plasma actuator is the thinnest ...

Earth rotation climate change is altering our planet’s spin at a rate unmatched in 3.6 million years, a new study finds.

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has detected a gap in the population of faint red dwarf stars inside the ...

Earthquakes are fracturing solid rock nearly 90 kilometers beneath stable continental interiors, a depth where standard ...

Glasses are non-crystalline but solid states of matter in which molecules and atoms are not arranged into a regular crystal ...

Nuclear physicists used a little magic in their latest experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and the result has revealed surprising ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...

Biophysics is the study of physical phenomena and physical processes in living things, on scales spanning molecules, cells, tissues and organisms. Biophysicists use the principles and methods of ...

Energy close energyEnergy can be stored and transferred. Energy is a conserved quantity. can be described as being in different ‘stores’. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy can be ...

An object in a fluid is displacing some of the fluid. The upthrust force is equal in size to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. If the upthrust is less than the weight of the object, the ...