Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones – this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Elon Musk revealed his son's middle name, Shekar, is inspired by Nobel laureate physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, ...

Building on decades of effort, Lizhong Zhang, Member (2023–24) in the School of Natural Sciences; James Stone, Professor in ...

Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

On the future of work, Musk predicted that within 10 to 20 years, “working will be optional,” driven by a productivity explosion from AI and robotics.

Physicists and mathematicians at the University of Konstanz, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and CNR INO in Trento (Italy) use concepts from topography to ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...