Jesse Emspak

A glass made with the same stuff that makes up touch screens might draw the curtain on curtains. Here's how.

This physics first may be a step toward spintronics.

The finding may open the way to understanding superconductivity and other physical phenomena.

A varying speed of light has broad implications, from cosmology to astronomy.

A possible new exotic particle is just one tantalizing hint of new physics at the world's atom smashers.

The discovery may shed light on how life evolved the ability to use oxygen.

A team of Chinese physicists has put a speed limit on quantum interactions.

A question proposed a century ago about knots and smoke rings gets answered.

The Higgs isn’t the only particle physicists are hunting.

How many protons can dance on the head of a pin?

This time he says his new website is legal.

Want to make tiny semiconductors? Feed worms metal.

An eruption of matter from a quasar could show how galaxies shed weight.

Canadian scientist finds key information to help design protection against the horrifying hemorrhagic fever.

Physicists have "virtually intertwined" two particles spinning faster than ever in opposite directions.

A new technique for changing mitochondrial DNA could help to cure certain diseases.

A look at zinc isotopes in moon rocks is more evidence of the moon's cataclysmic birth.

A star that moves at record-breaking speed could help astronomers test Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The "arsenic-munching" bacteria sports proteins that filter out arsenate.

Creating new alloys used to be a matter of trial and error, but now a technique developed at MIT could change that.

With a giant swath of India losing power in the largest blackout in history, we look at exactly how these utilities work.

A drought that gripped western North America from 2000 to 2004 was the worst since the Middle Ages, but such extreme conditions may become normal during the next 100 years, finds a new study.