RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Optical illusions are fascinating visual tricks that deceive our brains, making us see things that aren’t actually there or perceive images differently than they truly are. These illusions play with ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problem of fixed pole-slot combinations of traditional permanent magnet linear motors (PMLMs), this paper proposes a novel PMLM with the same number of poles and slots, which ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...