Scientists at Radboud University say the universe will fade out far sooner than once believed, not in 10¹¹⁰⁰ years, but in ...

Why do neutrinos, these elementary particles, sometimes seem to act in such a puzzling way? For decades, physicists have been ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

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

Department of Chemistry and Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, University of Oslo, PO Box 1033 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway ...

This Friday roundup explores bio-inspired and digital materials technology, robotic nanofabrication, and tunable metasurfaces ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.