Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ordered to classical and chaotic ...

Gravitational waves can be described as ripples in the fabric of space-time, generated by the acceleration of massive objects. These waves travel at the speed of light and are often produced during ...

A ‘quantum telephone’ connecting atomic nuclei could make practical quantum computers easier to build and use.

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

In the 1920s, Albert Einstein and one of his former students developed a way to keep food cold using heat. It was designed to ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.

An international team of astronomers has discovered an unusual Einstein cross that displays five light points instead of the usual four. This rare cosmic arrangement is related to a study recently ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...