It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

New results published in the journal Physical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela ...

A new material developed at Penn State defies a fundamental law of physics, opening doors to highly efficient solar cells.

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

When Sir Isaac Newton conceived his now-famed laws of motion in 1686, he sought to explain the relationship between a ...

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...