This Machine Will Hug Your 'Soft Bodies' and Force Them to Be Twitchy Robots By Rafi Letzter Say goodbye to your favorite teddy bear. It's robo-Teddy now.
7 Quantum Particles Act Like Billions in Weird Physics Experiment By Rafi Letzter Just seven photons in a mirrored trap formed a Bose-Einstein condensate, one of the more exotic particle states — and one usually reserved for matter.
Happy Birthday, LHC: Here's to 10 Years of Atom Smashing at the Large Hadron Collider By Don Lincoln Ten years ago, the world's largest scientific instrument was turned on and the start of a research dynasty began.
Photos: Large Numbers That Define the Universe By Yasemin Saplakoglu A journey from zero to numbers so large, they don’t have a name.
Harvard Printer Blasts Droplets with 100 Times Earth's Gravitational Force (Video) By Rafi Letzter Harvard University's engineering school has produced a machine that uses sound to print anything from honey to liquid metal. And there's mesmerizing video.
Google News Searches Aren't Politically Biased, but They Do Like Mainstream Media By Seth Lewis, Efrat Nechushtai Google News does not deliver different news to users based on their position on the political spectrum, despite accusations from conservative commentators and even President Donald Trump.
How Scientists Created the Purest Drop of Water on Earth By Rafi Letzter If cleanliness is next to godliness, then this is one divine droplet.
NASA Will Launch a Laser Into Space Next Month to Track Earth's Melting Ice By Meghan Bartels NASA is preparing to launch a cutting-edge, laser-armed satellite that will spend three years studying Earth's changing ice sheets.
Scientists Blasted Mirrors with Lasers to Listen to Light By Yasemin Saplakoglu Light has momentum, and scientists can hear it.
US Air Force Zooms Ahead on 2 New Hypersonic Weapons Plans By Mike Wall Over the last four months, the U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts for hypersonic weapons worth a maximum of $1.4 billion to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Ever By Space.com Staff Since Sputnik 1 launched in 1957, nations have been racing to gain a military advantage in space — the ultimate "high ground." Check out the top 10 space weapon concepts from over the years.
Pseudo-Satellite Drone Flies for 25 Days Straight, Sets Endurance Record By Tom Metcalfe The Zephyr drone could be used for military reconnaissance and wildfire monitoring, among other activities.
Plasma Scientists Created Invisible, Whooping 'Whistlers' in a Lab By Rafi Letzter The strange radio bursts usually circle the Earth like electromagnetic ghosts, but scientists have now created and studied their shapes in a plasma chamber on Earth.
China Just Tested a Hypersonic Weapon That Could Launch Nukes at 6 Times the Speed of Sound By Brandon Specktor The successful launch puts China "shoulder to shoulder" with the U.S. and Russia in the hypersonic nuke race.
Physicists Tied Laser Beams into Knots By Rafi Letzter The technology could improve future precision light sources. But right now the biggest surprise is how many holes there are in a laser figure-eight.
Large Hadron Collider Just Spat Electron-ified Atoms to Almost the Speed of Light By Rafi Letzter The Large Hadron Collider accelerated lead nuclei with orbiting electrons along its tunnel for the first time, opening new scientific doors.
World First: Chinese Physicists Made a Cold Atomic Clock Work in Space By Rafi Letzter Atomic clocks have traveled to space before. But no one has ever managed to make one this accurate tick up there before.
What in the Whirled? Tiny, Floating Dumbbell Rotates 60 Billion Times Per Minute By Mindy Weisberger An object that can rotate 60 billion times per minute? It's enough to make your head spin.
Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA's 'Robot Olympics' By Mindy Weisberger Are you ready for the insect-sized-robot Olympics?
