Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...

The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

For years, researchers have provided contradictory evidence about the “premelting film” of ice, its thickness and whether it ...

Physicists are fascinated with heady puzzles, from the nature of space and time to how the universe came to be. But spinning lawn sprinklers? Yes, that too. A new experiment provides an answer to a ...

Neutrino physics remains a pivotal area in the quest to unravel fundamental aspects of particle behaviour and the evolution of the universe. Neutrinos—elusive, nearly massless particles—are known to ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...