From smartphones and wind turbines to electric vehicles and satellite systems, the 21st century is powered by materials that few people can name ...

Your car's tachometer has a redline that's probably well below 10,000 rpm. These engines put the capabilities of production ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

The University of Jyväskylä (Finland), in collaboration with the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), has ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...

Some landowners had no idea their plots contained radioactive material. Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, shouldered the cost of the cleanup.

Work started on March 17 to dismantle the No. 2 reactor of Chubu Electric ... with a radioactive concentration of less than 100 becquerels per kilogram are classified as “clearance materials ...

The British Army tests WEEVIL, a robot device that turns vehicles into remote mine-clearers, keeping troops safe miles from ...

Accomplishing this feat takes large amounts of heat and pressure. Government purchases machine that mimics the process used ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Apr. 11, 2025 — Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a ...