Chiara Marletto is trying to build a master theory — a set of ideas so fundamental that all other theories would spring from it. Her first step: Invoke the impossible. They say that in art, ...

When people talk about terraforming planets, they don’t usually think of moss as a tool, but perhaps we’ve been underrating ...

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for unraveling the structure and history of the universe and for changing our perspective of Earth's place in it. Canadian-American ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Tuesday, the second award to be revealed this year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, a day after a trio of scientists won the prize ...

In a first, scientists have shown that they can send light through “slits in time” in time. The new experiment is a twist on a 220-year-old demonstration, in which light shines through two slits in a ...