Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

Researchers in Canada are developing a low-cost orthovoltage radiotherapy system for use in low-resource and geographically remote regions ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

Physicists working on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are the first to report the production of top quark–antiquark pairs in collisions involving heavy nuclei. By colliding ...

Abnormal versions of synchronization patterns known as “Arnold’s tongues” have been observed in a femtosecond fibre laser that generates oscillating light pulses. While these unconventional patterns ...

Even more unexpectedly, I have been able to make tennis-ball towers consisting of layers of four balls (4 n + 1) and five ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable the flow of information between the brain and an external device such as a computer, ...

A quarter of a century after he started writing his “Critical Point” column, Robert P Crease reveals his underlying message ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...