Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in ...

The world’s smallest temporary pacemaker is self-powered, optically controlled and dissolves when it’s no longer needed ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

Synchronization studies: When the experimenters mapped the laser’s breathing frequency intensity in the parameter space of pump current and intracavity loss (left), unusual features appeared. The ...

Top observation CERN’s ATLAS experiment has confirmed that heavy quark–antiquark pairs are created in the collision of lead ions. (Courtesy: CERN/ATLAS Collaboration) Physicists working on the ATLAS ...