Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in solar physics by providing the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional ...

Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to ...

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Down at the level of atoms and electrons, quantum physics describes the behavior of the very smallest objects. Solar panels, LED lights, your mobile phone and MRI scanners in hospitals: all of these ...

In the 1950's, a particle physicist made a landmark discovery that changed what we thought we knew about how our universe operates. Chien-Shiung Wu did it while raising a family and an ocean away from ...

Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What's less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like ...

HOUSTON -- (Feb. 4, 2020) -- Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught itself to accurately predict extreme weather events, like heat waves, up to five days in ...