It sounds like a magic trick, but it's simply physics. Power shows up in surprising places: bend ordinary ice and you can ...

An unsolved mystery in molecular chemistry is why the structure of ice prevents it from being piezoelectric. By ...

Ice is not as passive as it looks. New research shows that ordinary ice can create electricity when it is bent, stretched, or ...

The physics department offers students many teaching laboratories, where classroom theories are put into practice through real-world experiments and simulations. From electricity and magnetism to ...

The Lorentz Medal, awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Netherlands' ...

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions. By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller Friday, Dec. 8: This story was updated to include ...