China has quietly built a machine that bends one of the most stubborn limits in physics research: gravity itself. By pushing ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at Florida State University, that picture has just been shattered by a new ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding the ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

When matter collides with antimatter, both vanish in a powerful energy burst. Scientists explain who truly wins this cosmic ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

India has given the world some of the foremost scientists, whose contributions have helped pave the way for modern science, ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...