The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

India is building the third LIGO detector, thus completing the triad with the two existing US-based observatories.

At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

Quantum physics is a branch of science that studies the tiniest things in the universe, like atoms and the even smaller parts ...

Pantheism views God and the universe as one, while panentheism believes the universe exists within God, who still transcends ...

A new report by the United Nations has four crucial recommendations on global governance of AGI. We must save ourselves from ...

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of ...