Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

For hundreds of years, scientists have struggled to solve one of life's most enduring mysteries: How do cats always land on ...

A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday ...

Quote of the day by Newton: 1915 changed physics forever. In that year, Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity and reshaped our understanding of gravity and spacetime. For 228 ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

My travel schedule has become much busier recently, so I’ve been on a lot of flights. This inspired me to share what I think is a helpful metaphor. Please bear with me. In the late 1600s, Isaac Newton ...

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

Kathy French, the executive director of AR Kids Read (pronounced "Our Kids Read"), combines traits not often found together. She's effusive and analytical, steady and adventurous. She radiates an easy ...

Recently, the people of the city of Kolkata witnessed the earthquake for a short time; individuals ran out of high-rise offices to the streets in panic.

The zodiacal light – so called because it appears within the same belt of constellations as the zodiac signs (and is a light) – looks like a huge ghostly pyramid in the sky, its vertical axis tilted ...

“The whole thing is very hypothetical at this point,” Stephen Hsu said of wormholes, a caution that still defines the subject even as the idea keeps resurfacing in serious physics. The appeal is ...