Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

California firm founders, including two US Energy Dept. veterans, aim to scale laser-based inertial confinement fusion ...

Now, Takahito Iida at the University of Osaka has proposed a new energy-harvesting technology that uses gyroscopic flywheel system that can be tuned to absorb energy efficiently over a broad range of ...

A Queen’s research team has developed a new way to train AI systems so they focus on the bigger picture instead of specific, ...

In crowds, most people are strangers to you, and everyone else for that matter. However, until now, the effect of stranger-to-stranger interactions on the choices people make in crowds has not been ...

Based on these challenges, a comprehensive reassessment of how AI should be deployed in electrocatalysis has become urgently needed. Addressing this need, a review published (DOI: 10.1016/j.esci.2025.

Fusion power moves closer to commercialization. Storing data for 10,000 years. Why AI won’t necessarily take your job. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

Rheology, high-speed imaging, and velocimetry combined to characterize how some roller-based nozzles perform so well with non ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new way to generate ultra-precise, evenly spaced "combs" of laser light on a ...

If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

Today, we know a lot about distance work and how to make it work. Thirty years of federally funded research brought ...

The makers of Galak-Z are getting into the dungeon brawling business, but to make their latest game work, they needed to make some adjustments.