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A meteorite that fell in Germany in 1724 contains a form of silica that conducts heat in a stable manner and baffles physicists.

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

Researchers have detailed the physics behind a phenomenon that allows them to create spin in liquid droplets using ultrasound waves, which concentrates solid particles suspended in the liquid. The ...

Thought experiments can be extremely powerful; after all, pretty much everything that [Einstein] came up with was based on thought experiments. But when a thought experiment turns into a real ...

Researchers have derived the governing equations that describe and explain the macroscopic mechanical behavior of elastomers filled with liquid inclusions directly in terms of their microscopic ...

Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Researcher Heike Pfau attaches an experimental setup at the base of a cooling unit at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. The experiment allowed Pfau and ...