These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

When cosmology makes headlines, we often see fancy images of cosmic maps and supernovas. But in reality, scientists have to sift through hundreds or thousands of calculations and simulations for ...

Physicists are rethinking one of quantum mechanics’ biggest puzzles: how fuzzy possibilities become definite reality. New research suggests that spontaneous “collapse” processes—possibly linked to ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a standard way to deliver compact, binary-format applications that can run in the browser. Wasm is also designed to run at or near machine-native speeds. Developers can ...

I am sitting in a lecture theatre, and in front of me is a sight that I am still getting used to. I am at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, the world’s largest annual meeting of ...

If you gently fold a disc made of some flexible and possibly tasty material, what makes it stay folded? And how many times can you fold it before it puts up a fight and flips back? A physicist from ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. Its centerpiece was an innocuous-looking equation ...

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...