What are the loudest sounds at UB? Where are the university’s quietest spots? What unlikely noises here are around 60 decibels, the level typically associated with a normal conversation between two ...

How it works: Akhil Padmanabha and colleagues have invented a wearable device that can objectively measure the intensity of scratching. (Courtesy: Carnegie Mellon University) A new wearable ring ...

Researchers are proposing a new experiment that will probe fundamental aspects of the quantum vacuum by searching for highly elusive photon–photon scattering events. Quantum mechanics and special ...

A researcher at Tohoku University's Department of Physics discovered an unexpected quantum phenomenon concealed inside ...