Scientists have developed a new configuration for neutron generators by turning from conventional cylindrical tubes to the flat geometry of computer chips. It was a figurative whack on the head that ...

The key feature of spintronic devices is their ability to use spin currents to transfer momentum, enabling low-energy, ...

I often get asked what an "expanding universe" really means. It's confusing, and for very good reasons. So, if you are perplexed by this, don't feel bad. We all are, although cosmologists — physicists ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Most of us learn some amount of Euclidean ...