Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

TK Radha was a brilliant Indian physicist who earned a rare invitation from Robert Oppenheimer to conduct research at ...

No matter how good a quantum computing company's tech is, its stock may not pay off.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that bizarre interactions between subatomic particles known as neutrinos could be explained by another type of neutrino. The ...

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...

Crypto Twitter discusses Michael Saylor's warning about the greatest threat to Bitcoin.

A new estimate suggests land sources eject 600 quadrillion pieces of microplastic into the atmosphere every year ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Some time around 1683, amateur Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the plaque from between his teeth and peered at it through a home-made microscope.

At first glance, quantum mechanics might seem strange or even impossible. That’s because our everyday experiences of the laws of physics are very different from how matter and energy behave at the ...