Self-accelerating beams—shape-preserving bending beams—are attracting great interest, offering applications in many areas such as particle micromanipulation, microscopy, induction of plasma channels, ...

In 1958, Aharonov and Bohm (AB) predicted that two parts of the wavefunction of an electron can accumulate a phase difference even when they are confined to a region in space with zero electromagnetic ...

Most drivers want their pickup trucks to be practical work-ready vehicles, and those two things are not usually associated with speed. However, for the few that are willing to compromise on ...

Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have reached a milestone in a study where they derived a new kind of wave equation, which applies for accelerating waves. The ...

Discussing the fastest-accelerating SUVs seems perfectly ordinary as automakers of today are laser-focused on highlighting the sport aspect of the sport utility vehicle. A forefather of the modern SUV ...

This is the second in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. Be sure to read the other articles: Will the End of Moore’s Law Halt Computing’s ...

Tamara Davis receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Davis is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. There’s been a whirlwind of commentary of late speculating ...