Foams are everywhere: soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise. For decades, scientists ...

Foams were once thought to behave like glass, with bubbles frozen in place at the microscopic level. But new simulations ...

Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, ...

George Smoot, who led the team that first measured tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, passed away on 18 ...

Supersonic experiments are forcing physicists to rewrite a rule of thumb that has guided metal design for roughly 70 years, ...

SPIE Photonics West sees the global optics and photonics community come together to present and discuss the latest industry ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Magnon frequency combs may make it possible to link and interact with a wide range of physical systems, opening new pathways ...

MKS Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of enabling technologies that transform our world, will showcase its latest ...

A chip that produces microscopic “earthquakes” could change smartphone design, allowing manufacturers to shrink internal components while boosting signal handling and data speeds using surface ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...