Mission Spacewalker, a group of University of Alberta undergrads focused on space exploration and research, is reaching new heights. The group recently tested an experiment in reduced gravity on a ...

A new acoustic levitation technique combines sound waves and electric charge to control multiple particles without physical ...

Like Ghaskadbi, many researchers can trace their initial childhood interest in science to a gift. Dozens of readers of the Nature Briefing responded to our call asking about their favourite presents — ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

For three decades, a riddle has followed neutrinos, the near-weightless particles that stream through Earth by the trillions each second. They change identities as they fly, shifting among three known ...

Physicists have long suspected that gravity might have a hidden quantum side, but for decades the idea has been more ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

Easy: He uses a warp drive, a nifty little propulsion trick that allows the crew to exceed the speed of light by warping ...