Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Metals are made of randomly oriented crystals at the microscopic-length scale. The alignment of the crystal faces creates an infinite number of configurations and complex patterns, making simulations ...

Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era. By Stephanie Saul A protester detained, her bra ...

Learn how to compute and visualize electric field vectors using Python. This tutorial walks you through coding the physics behind electric fields and creating clear, interactive visualizations to make ...

This valuable study presents a technically sophisticated intravital two-photon calcium imaging approach to characterize Ca²⁺ dynamics in distinct populations of meningeal macrophages in awake, freely ...

To lower agricultural emissions, policymakers and communities first need to pinpoint the sources—not just by country but crop ...

Tucked under the north side of Seattle’s very busy Class B airspace is Seattle Paine Field International (KPAE) in Everett, Washington. The airport is home to the Boeing factory, the largest building ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed ...

Like every other field, the field of remote sensing is undergoing one of the most transformative shifts in its history in this era of artificial ...

I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended ...