This activity is part of the Science Friday Sun Camp collection! The Sun generates an incredible amount of energy, energy that you can see and feel as light and heat. Other forms of energy from the ...

Dark matter search: Team co-leader Christopher Tunnell is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice) A tiny neodymium particle suspended inside a ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

A nuclear fusion experiment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has set a record for the strongest steady magnetic field confining a plasma, ushering in new hope that forthcoming demonstration ...

Dr. Stephan Winnerl (right) talks to FELBE physicist Dr. John Michael Klopf about experiments at the HZDR's FELBE free-electron lasers. Graphene, that is extremely thin carbon, is considered a true ...

To find some of the coldest objects in the universe, you don’t have to go much further than your local university. There, a physicist may be using laser light and magnets to cool atoms below a ...

Gravitational wave detectors, such as LIGO, have revolutionized astronomy, but only within a narrow frequency range. Now, physicists have found a way to dramatically widen that range using something ...