On a warm day in January of last year, Martin Heinritzi peered from a window of his research plane, spotting Australia’s ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already ...

"Could turn the tide." High school student develops groundbreaking technology to address dangerous issue in drinking water: ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.

Researchers successfully freeze light into a supersolid, a groundbreaking discovery with potential applications in quantum ...

For over a decade, researchers have considered boson sampling—a quantum computing protocol involving light particles—as a key ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

A recent survey suggests that every hour people around the world discard 5.7 million toothpaste tubes, 570,000 cell phones ...