When a high-intensity laser interacts with plasma, the charged particles typically oscillate back and forth like waves on the ...

Branching out: the team says it is the first demonstration of Voronoi diagrams in plant venation patterns. Left: a leaf of the Chinese money plant. Right: A computer model of a Voronoi diagram that ...

Tied up in knots: the tiny knotted robot could find applications in agriculture and reforestation. (Courtesy: Bella Ciervo/Penn Engineering) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the ...

SINGAPORE – The non-stop rain and sweater weather Singapore experienced in early January 2025 is unlikely to be repeated in the week ahead, as a monsoon surge is not expected between now and Jan 11, ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development. In March, a group of ...

"Waves are everywhere in physics," explains Dr. Paul Corkum. "Everything is made of electrons and nuclei, and both have wave properties. Electrons are pulled strongly to the much heavier nuclei. In a ...

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, you can see gravity’s fingerprint. It’s in the path the moon takes around Earth each night and the humbling thump when you wipe out on an icy patch of sidewalk. The force of ...

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For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a ...

Atmospheric electricity is related to a broad range of disciplines, including global atmospheric electric circuit (GEC), energetic radiation, aerosol and cloud microphysics, thunderstorm ...

Holger Müller is in the Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. However, the recoil energy is tiny and therefore hard to measure. Laser-based ...