Viscous materials do not follow standard laws - below a sub-melting point threshold, anyway.  Glass-formers are a class of highly viscous liquid materials that have the consistency of honey and…

Everytime I hear the word 'manhole' I think I have a hearing problem, or that my English is really, really bad. It sounds like a word I should understand, consisting of the two well known words 'man…

If you love the appearance of getting hammered and are too classy to hold 'near' beer - or, oddly, you enjoy the taste of whisky but don't like getting hammered - there is good news;  the world'…

Traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula may mean chocolate was a condiment or sauce with solid food in pre-Hispanic cultures rather than as a beverage reserved for the…

Banks and brokerage houses employ a lot of physicists - it was a big fad of the last decade because the industry discovered that physicists knew how to make models and economists did not. But…

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, remains in good health and is just one day and 12 hours from touchdown on Mars. All systems are go and it is doing so well the planned…

India suffered the worst blackouts in history this week, leaving over 600 million people without power and providing evidence of deep problems in a sector teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for the…

"Total Recall" may be getting creamed by critics but fans of VR headsets are firmly behind the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is a head-mounted display with a few features that make it ideal for gamers…

An experiment using single particles of light, photons, have produced and implemented them intoa quantum key distribution (QKD) link. The single photons were produced using two devices made of…

Collisions between heavy ions at machines like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and more recently the LHC, may help enlighten our understanding of the hot…