A recent study reveals that how we think about our sleep might be enough to affect how we actually feel waking up.

Roughly 270 years ago, Dr. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost from Germany observed a peculiar behavior of water droplets on heated metal surfaces. In his manuscript, "A Tract About Some Qualities of Common ...

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

In honor of Women's History Month, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is honoring women trailblazers in the energy field.

Can we build the structures of trust and reliability early enough to allow innovation to accelerate to new heights, without ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps ...

When we hear about moving objects with electricity, most of us imagine a "pulling force." Positive and negative charges ...

Tankers have begun to steer clear of the region and the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to push up energy prices.

The U.S. government has launched the process to develop a regulatory framework to develop fusion machines as emerging nuclear ...

By freezing a crucial phosphoric acid complex to near absolute zero, scientists uncovered a single, unexpectedly stable structure at the heart of proton transport.

Long-term tests further show that the presodiated hard carbon retains 93.6% of its capacity after 3,000 charge–discharge cycles. Microscopic and spectroscopic analyses confirm the formation of a thin, ...