Preliminary reports out of Europe about the massive blackout that left millions powerless say the cause may have been ...

Portuguese power grid supplier Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) has claimed faults on the Spanish side of the power grid ...

Whatever caused the blackout in Spain and Portugal, it highlights the vulnerabilities in some electricity grids.

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Lauterbur used the fruit in his experiments. The Science History Institute stewards his ...

Bloch and Purcell were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952 for their discovery of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. The NMR phenomenon relies on the interaction of the nuclei of ...

Using a system of cylindrical granular particles -- small solid rods made of quartz -- the researchers built a highly tunable mechanical platform. By precisely adjusting how the cylinders touch each ...