A groundbreaking study reveals how neurons sense and transmit mechanical forces across their membranes—a key to understanding touch, movement, and development.

When you wander around the internet, sometimes you can find some crazy stuff. Check this out: It's an old account of a weird phenomena created by giant plastic sheets at 3M Corporation. In short, ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

There are some things in life that just sort of happen. Desks get covered in dust and scraps of paper. Clothes get dirty and the laundry basket fills up. Weeds slowly creep across an untended ...

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The strong force binds quarks inside neutrons and protons, and holds atomic nuclei together. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But ...

Intriguing new results at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) point to a new force of nature that scientists don't understand. The anomaly is seen in B mesons, which are paired ...

Technologies that rely on interactions between matter and polarized light usually stick to the well-understood effects of linear or circular polarization. Researchers at Rice University in the US have ...

An image of the experiments showing a coil that the researchers used to measure the frequency at one point. (Courtesy: R Bjørk) Magnetic levitation is already employed in systems such as Maglev trains ...