Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical ...

Link to What to Watch: In Theaters and On Streaming Weekend Box Office: Now You See Me Outpaces The Running Man to Debut at No. 1 Link to Weekend Box Office: Now You See Me Outpaces The Running Man to ...

Nova Launcher appeared to have shut down for good last month when its founder, Kevin Barry, left its parent company Branch Metrics. The launcher received a rare update on the Google Play Store today, ...

In both NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance experiment) and T2K experiments, neutrinos are fired from particle accelerators and detected after traveling long distances underground. The challenge is ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...

Introducing our October Artist of the Month — Motion City Soundtrack. The renowned 30-year-old rock band just released their first album in 10 years, and 7th overall – The Same Old Wasted Wonderful ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in ...