For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...

There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

Lenovo and Motorola have impressed at CES 2026, with rollable laptop concepts and an early look at Motorola's new book-style ...

C hina has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we ...