In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged ...

In this week’s special CEO Series edition of Space Minds, we’re at the World Space Business Week in Paris. In today’s episode ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It ...

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...

Genuine happiness stems from discipline, which involves protecting the mind from negativity, focusing on meaningful ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

If humanity wants to turn Mars into more than a daydream, we need a new kind of rocket. Not just a bigger booster or a fancier capsule, but something radically different. At Ohio State University and ...

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...