Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on how thunderstorms can create flashes ...

Far from home NASA astronaut Terry Virts watches Earth from aboard the International Space Station in 2015. (Courtesy: NASA) ...

Because the experiment was done here on Earth, rather than in space, the team also had to ensure that the targets were in ...

Friend won for his work on the fundamental electronic properties of molecular semiconductors and in their engineering ...

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As an enigmatic insulator, alumina has posed significant challenges for experimental studies and its surface structure has ...

In the other 26% of cases, contrast MRI suggested lesion shrinkage while the MRI-linac scans showed lesion growth. Cullison ...

Charting disciplines This infographic shows the fields of physics associated with successive Nobel Prizes for Physics. Click on the image to expand. (Courtesy: Alison Tovey/IOP Publishing) Part of the ...

Cells in space Researchers Jonathan Tsui and Stefanie Countryman conduct final preparations of the heart-on-a-chip at the Kennedy Space Center before sending their experiment to the International ...

Impact zone The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will perform a close-up examination of DART’s 2022 impact of Dimorphos. (Courtesy: SpaceX) The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a €360m ...

More than 90 papers from China have been recognized with a top-cited paper award for 2024 from IOP Publishing.