An unexpected anomaly is only as disruptive as the framework it challenges, and in modern physics that framework is a ...

In one particularly weird document, titled Negative Mass Propulsion, the authors propose nuking the Moon, as well as building ...

Fundamental physics faces a stubborn paradox: the current impossibility of reconciling the rules of the quantum world with ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...

The study of large-time behavior of solutions to partial differential equations is a fundamental pursuit in mathematical analysis, with profound ...

Comet 3I Atlas is currently ~186 million miles from Earth, which is twice the distance from the Earth to the sun. It is ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

A laser is usually constructed from two basic elements: a material that provides optical gain through stimulated emission and an optical cavity that partially traps the light. When the total gain in ...

India had the wherewithal in the previous decade to help crack an important scientific mystery, but now China has surged ahead ...

Bob Strauss is a science writer and the author of several books, including "The Big Book of What, How and Why" and "A Field Guide to the Dinosaurs of North America." ...