Star Trek, as well as being a great sci-fi show, is known for either predicting or inspiring real-world technology.

Scientists have successfully activated the world’s smallest particle accelerator, a device as compact as a coin. This ...

Mark Cartwright, head of commercial vehicle incident prevention at National Highways, looks at speeding and an employer’s ...

Physicists have long tried to model the chaotic phenomenon of turbulence. Now, a team has pioneered a new quantum ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

Researchers have created a compact camera where the lens is replaced by engineered optics that can identify objects at ...

Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...

“Seeing advances like this (a million times better utilization of memory and a thousand times speed-up in computation ... the oldest unsolved problem in physics. The German theoretical physicist ...

No matter how well-balanced a sports car is, physics ultimately dictates the limits of traction, as this C8 Corvette driver ...

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.

For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed high-energy light pulses. This is thanks to a new measurement technique ...