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Neutrinos are some of nature’s most elusive particles. One hundred trillion fly through your body every second, but each one has only a tiny chance of jostling one of your atoms, a consequence of the ...

A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major ...

Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its ...

Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of Through Two Doors at Once, among other books. His next is on the mathematics of machine learning. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of ...

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll loves his subject, and dreams of a world where everyone shares his passion. “People have opinions, after all, about supply-side economics or critical race theory,” ...