This apparatus, held in London's Science Museum, has some significant purpose — or curiosity value — in the history of physics. Can you guess what it is? In 1937, George Paget Thomson followed in his ...

Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (GM-APDs) are highly sensitive light detectors, capable of detecting single photons. Photons of certain wavelengths, when absorbed by photodiodes, generate ...

President Trump slammed Time magazine early Tuesday for using an unflattering picture for a cover story about “his triumph” in securing the releases of Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity. “Time ...

President Donald Trump slammed Time magazine for using what he called a “super bad” photo of him in its news coverage of covering the Israel-Hamas peace deal brokered by him. “Time Magazine wrote a ...

Trapped and squeezed: A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the centre of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light ...

What just happened? We're used to seeing government agencies accuse China of carrying out cyberattacks against the US, but the Asian nation isn't averse to throwing the same accusations at the United ...

California is about to make history. Starting next month, the state will stop using coal as a source of electricity. This marks the end of a long journey to remove one of the dirtiest fuels from ...

Scientists have modelled the climate impacts of a gas project off Australia's north-west coast, finding emissions over its lifetime would cause more than 400 heat-related deaths in Europe. The ...