The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

These fundamental teaching strategies—of making room for failure, and being explicit and transparent about how students’ ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

The smallest unit of information in a computer is the bit: on or off, 1 or 0. Today, the world's entire computing power is built on the combination and interconnection of countless ones and zeros.

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

A new study challenges traditional spin-statistics assumptions in ion-atom charge exchanges, revealing unexpected dynamics in C3+ and helium collisions and opening new avenues in quantum reactivity.

The symbols and mathematical operations used in the laws of physics follow a pattern that could reveal something fundamental about the universe ...

Rohini Godbole, a pioneering theoretical physicist in collider physics, inspired generations of researchers worldwide with ...

In the anthology A Random Walk in Science, D.A. Wright delights us with a fantastic essay titled A Theory of Ghosts. It starts from the assumption that ghosts can go through walls and doors but remain ...

The experiment will measure gravitational tugs between tiny diamond crystals and determine whether gravity — like the three ...