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 ...

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

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...