The Lab Report: Every week, The Lab Report takes a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Somewhere along the Mississippi River, a blissful current whips ...

A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe—fundamentally changing from particle-like to ...

In this simple demonstration, we see what seems like a special effect. But it’s not. Here’s how laminar flow makes reality look like an optical illusion. It looks totally fake. Corn syrup dyed yellow, ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Spaghetti-thin shoelaces, sturdy hawsers, silk cravats—all are routinely tied in knots. So too, physicists believe, are water, air and the liquid iron ...

March 17th is fast approaching, and that means only one thing. "Is it the anniversary of the discovery of Californium?" I hear you cry! Nope. "What about the anniversary of the birth of ballet dancer ...

A small crystal of the new material. (Courtesy: Fazel Tafti, Boston College) A team of researchers in the US has discovered that electrons in a transition metal superconductor called ditetrelide flow ...

Ted Heindel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The spread of tumors and other growing tissues has revealed a whole new type of physics. In new ...