Physics News Stories

A large electric eel can deliver a shock ten times more powerful than a TASER, a new study has shown.

Scientists rewrite the rules of Jupiter’s auroras to explain the latest data from NASA's Juno Mission.

The use of artificial light at night, such as street lights, can harm pollination according to researchers at the...

Einstein's theory of General Relativity, conceived a century ago, has enabled astronomers to weigh a nearby star,...

Regularly hailed as the best instruments in the business, 17th and 18th Century Stradivarius violins fetch millions on...

Before the introduction of the electric chair, there were numerous accidental deaths from electric shock, but it wasn’t...

Renewable energy systems must rely on better, more powerful energy storage systems if the industry wants to become...

Have you ever thought about the possibility of several parallel worlds? What if there is a doppelganger of yourself...

A new theory on the Moon's formation has been proposed by scientists and it involves a big crash and a very fast...

How cells recycle their waste, the mechanics of superconductivity and the crafting of nano-scale motors were...

Sonic holograms that shape sound waves into complex patterns to manipulate tiny objects, have been developed by...

A new concept in energy storage based on water and capable of soaking up power from solar cells has been developed by...

The Dawn spacecraft sheds light on the dwarf planet Ceres...

Living 500 years or more, a species of shark has swum away with the medal for world's longest-lived vertebrate...

A technique for storing data using individual atoms has been announced by scientists in the Netherlands...

Solar powered aeroplane Solar Impulse 2 has broken a world record without burning a drop of a jet fuel...

An electric field applied to liquid chocolate during processing makes it possible to cut the fat content.

A new coating, illuminated by a low-cost infrared laser, can produce powerful beams of warm white light.

Researchers have demonstrated a unique carbon capture and storage process that can convert carbon dioxide into...

A new generation of "optical" clock promises to make time-keeping even more accurate.

Nanobots (really small robots) sound like science fiction, but Cambridge researchers have brought them one step closer...

The first step towards a space-based gravitational wave telescope has been tested successfully by the European Space...

One of the biggest astronomical explosions ever seen has been spotted in a galaxy far, far away.

The seventh row of the periodic table has been completed with the addition of four new super-heavy metals