One physics question went from classroom chatter to an airborne experiment with a helicopter as the test lab. Chaos expected as large hailstones and gusts up to 100km/h forecast for eastern states ...

A levitated nanoscale particle in vacuum represents an isolated system where researchers can study the transition between classical and quantum mechanics. It also offers a testbed for building new ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ordered to classical and chaotic ...

Supriya Chakrabarti, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Director, Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology will ...

Train delays can cascade into stalled commutes, economic losses, and vacation snags. Scheduling trains is computationally ...

The tongue-in-cheek scientific awards also recognise research into lizard's preferred pizza and garlicky breastmilk.

This year's Ig Nobel prize-winning research included studies on lizard pizza preferences, bats flying under the influence, ...

Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." The unapologetically campy awards ...

After a few glasses of sangria, it might feel like your conversational Spanish is suddenly fluent. Now, experts have revealed ...

UCD and Met Éireann launch a new AI weather prediction and modelling research centre to combat increasingly extreme weather events.

The Gateway Process was originally the brainchild of radio producer Robert Monroe, who in the 1970s studied the effects of certain sound patterns on human consciousness. He claimed that his ...

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique, purpose-built scale was ready to ...