New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The physicist's conception of space-time underwent two major upheavals thanks to the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Both ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...

The road ahead -- Patterns in space -- Patterns in time -- Dimensionless patterns -- Speciation -- Extinction -- Coevolution of habitat diversity and species diversity -- Species--area curves: the ...

TIME Chief Operating Officer Mark Howard sent the following note to staff on Wednesday: Team, I am excited to announce that Michael Mraz is joining TIME as our new SVP, Head of Product and Platform AI ...

In recent years, many popular science books have appeared that attempt to make scientific ideas accessible to the general public. Although this is an entirely laudable endeavour, it has had both a ...

Welcome to The Athletic Collectibles Staff’s Sports Card of the Week! Here we highlight a notable, interesting, or just plain fun sports card. This week, we go back to the early ’90s and a classic ...

One question, for instance, might be why can't we walk through walls? Atoms, which are the building blocks of matter, are mostly empty space. The tiny nucleus — which is about 100,000 times smaller ...

The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

Astronomers recently discovered a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system, and a Harvard physicist is sounding the alarm that its strange characteristics might indicate it’s more ...

Beyond powering lights, it's also important to think about where all that light would go. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to ...

The world’s largest airplane, when it’s built, will stretch more than a football field from tip to tail. Sixty percent longer ...