A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared ...

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"There are more questions than answers at this point." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dark energy could have an accomplice that ...

Why does light carry energy even though it has no mass? This video explains the real physics behind photons, energy–momentum ...

High energy density (HED) physics has critical applications in areas such as inertial confinement fusion and the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Congress has requested that the ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm observable at a larger scale. By Katrina Miller and Ali Watkins John Clarke, ...