Scientists around the world are marking 2025 as the "Year of Quantum," recognizing a century since the birth of modern ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the University of Salerno and the CNR-SPIN Institute (Italy), has made a significant breakthrough by discovering a previously ...

Throughout history, the simple act of putting pen to paper has sparked revolutions, ended wars, and reshaped entire civilizations. While today we fire off emails and text messages without much thought ...

Max Planck is widely recognized as the father of quantum theory for his groundbreaking work on energy quanta. His initial ...

While Max Planck is rightly celebrated as the father of quantum theory, his scientific curiosity didn’t stop there. He was a physicist who really dug into the nitty-gritty of how the universe works, ...

A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations ...

The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...