Carpets of tiny hairs called cilia that line the inside of the fallopian tubes give sperm the extra boost they need to be super swimmers, a new study shows.
A way to create a more complex magnetic moment arrangement in chromium triiodide allows the material to store more information.
"Time-crystals are a striking example of a new type of non-equilibrium quantum phase of matter."
Mathematicians have been trying to understand the turbulence that arises when a flow interacts with a boundary, but a formulation has proven elusive.
"The finger snap occurs in only seven milliseconds, more than twenty times faster than the blink of an eye, which takes more than 150 milliseconds."
Physics educational outreach programs are positive for both audiences and the students who present them, a new study shows.
The world's most precise measurement of the neutron's lifetime has an uncertainty of less than one-tenth of a percent.
Two physicists propose a new, bolder approach to planetary defense called PI, or "Pulverize It."
“The new phenomena we are reporting is a fundamental example of responses under high pressure—and will find a place in physics textbooks.”
New research compares the "bouncing behavior" of elite runners to those who are highly-trained but just shy of elite. They found a key difference.
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