How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

Researchers accidentally formed gold hydride under extreme pressure, revealing that gold is actually a "reactive metal." ...

Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery and design of advanced materials. The study, ...

Scientists have long pursued nuclear fusion as a near-limitless energy source. Fusion reactions, the same process powering ...

The reality is that not all copper cookware is as good as it claims to be. The mere presence of copper in a pan doesn’t ...

Physicists working at Germany’s GSI Helmholtz Centre have found the first experimental hints that an unusually heavy subatomic particle, the eta-prime meson, can bind to an atomic nucleus. If ...

Established through MC Digital Realty, a joint venture between Digital Realty and Mitsubishi Corporation, the DRIL in Japan ...

Parabolic flight tests reveal that gravity had been masking nearly all of graphene aerogel's light-driven propulsive ...

ORNL has pioneered molten salt research since the 1960s, when its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment showed that molten salt ...

Researchers have identified how in-plane temperature gradients inside lithium-ion batteries can either protect cells during ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery and design of advanced materials.