Vibrations are everywhere—from the hum of machinery to the rumble of transport systems. Usually, these random motions are wasted and dissipated without producing any usable work. Recently, scientists ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

Microplastics present in household dust and water damage mitochondria, accelerating aging and increasing the risk of disease.

Strange particles that have mass when moving one direction but no mass when moving in another were first theorised more than a decade ago. Now, these mass-shifting particles have been glimpsed in a ...

A new technique lets researchers make many more of the particles much faster, using consistent practices that meet safety standards. Over the past decade, Institute Professor Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ...

Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, ...

One day soon, we may get to see the flying cars we were promised as citizens of the 21st century. Swiss researchers have figured out how to levitate objects and particles in mid-air—they can even move ...

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

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