Squeaky shoes are part of the symphony of a basketball game, when rubber soles rasp against the hardwood floors as players ...

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the ...

The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, ...

Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin ...

The squeaking of sneakers on a gym floor is usually attributed to friction, specifically a stick-slip variety that involves cycles of sticking and sliding between two surfaces. But that model is best ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a high-resolution surface analysis technique that allows for 3D topographic imaging at the nanoscale and multiparametric characterization of the mechanical properties ...