Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

Collaboration to Deliver Superconducting Magnets up to 30 Tesla Through this partnership with the MagLab, Quantum ...

An international team involving Northwestern University​ announced Tuesday that it has reached a major milestone in its quest ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter ...

Recently, evidence derived from cognitive dissonance theory has been criticized, leading some to suggest that dissonance is ...

UC San Diego’s Federico Rossano breaks down the science behind dogs’ “word buttons,” the global fascination it sparked, and ...

This frames the plot of “The Evitable Conflict,” a short story from “I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov’s seminal collection published ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to ...