Step inside the strange world of a superfluid, a liquid that can flow endlessly without friction, defying the common-sense ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Stop-motion animator Drew Hodges won the cult comedy's first and only Emmy for the Season 2 Christmas special.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Depending on how you look at it, this catchphrase from a 1980s pop song is decently accurate: you can actually melt the ...

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises toward the surface. When pressure falls, gases dissolved deep within the ...

A warm hand is enough to drive motion in tiny Salmonella-inspired robots that harness molecular-level dynamic bonding. A team of researchers from China and the U.S. came together to design soft robots ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...