Hinton, who has been dubbed the “godfather” of artificial intelligence (AI), said he was “flabbergasted” to receive the prize. The Nobel prize in physics was awarded in Sweden on Tuesday.

Whiteson and Aishik Ghosh, a UC Irvine postdoctoral scholar in physics and astronomy – in conjunction with researchers from France’s Irene Joliot-Curie Laboratory, the University of Massachusetts and ...

T CrB will appear 1,500 times brighter than usual, but it won’t be as spectacular as the event in 1054. I am a space scientist with a passion for teaching physics and astronomy.

Earlier this year, new research suggested a potential solution to one of the most troubling aspects of modern physics — that "singularities" seem to exist at the hearts of black holes. The idea ...

Named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye. It measures roughly 40 moons in width and has a weight about 3,400 ...

Kent Gee, chair of BYU's Department of Physics and Astronomy, spoke about the impact of noise during his June 3 forum address at the Marriott Center.

Conservation of energy (Image credit: Getty Images) Energy conservation — the idea that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed — is one of the most important laws of physics.

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" accurately depicts the energy distribution in turbulent flows. The painting's swirls follow Kolmogorov's law of turbulence, a key equation in physics. It also shows ...