What happens when electrons leave a solid material? This seemingly simple phenomenon has, until now, eluded accurate ...

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Berlin-based Gauss Fusion GmbH has presented what it says is Europe's first full design for a commercial fusion power plant. ...

Normal cellular processes in living things — from germinating plants to our own cells — create biophotons, though escaping light isn’t visible to us.

In a lab in Hangzhou, China, a small chip may have just passed one of the most difficult honesty tests in physics. The test ...

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An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...