In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...

New measurements of nickelate superconductors reveal clues about their hidden electronic behavior. The mechanism behind high-temperature (TC) superconductivity remains one of condensed matter physics’ ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

Quantum physicists have uncovered a bizarre phenomenon in which photons appear to spend a “negative” amount of time ...

Feet have a disproportionately large surface area and dense concentration of blood vessels relative to the amount of heat-producing muscle they contain, which makes them the body's primary temperature ...

Western Europe is essentially trapped in the weather equivalent of a Dutch oven, a situation that one scientist said has “the fingerprints of climate change all over it” ...

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction. Against expert advice, people are using new and ...

Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force that keeps our feet on the ground and holds planets in orbit. The pursuit was more or ...

Researchers at Switzerland's Paul Scherrer Institute have experimentally investigated passive cooling systems for small modular reactors, collecting high-resolution measurement data for the first time ...

You might have heard advice to keep your bedroom "cool" for better sleep. But recent research shows that not only do cooler ...