Mike Marcum wasn’t a scientist. Just a guy with a dream — and a backyard full of salvaged parts. But when his homemade machine opened a swirling vortex, something strange happened. Objects disappeared ...

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

The movement of waves, patterns that carry sound, light or heat, through materials has been widely studied by physicists, as ...

Remarkably, these experiments revealed that molybdenum ditelluride can exhibit superconductivity and magnetism at the same ...

Shapiro steps – a series of abrupt jumps in the voltage–current characteristic of a Josephson junction that is exposed to microwave radiation – have been observed for the first time in ultracold gases ...