Physics

Every few months, there seems to be a shocking new discovery or breakthrough theory that promises to finally lay bare the secrets of...

Sure, an Omega Speedmaster watch was accurate enough to time the rocket thrusts that returned the Apollo 13 astronauts to Earth, but...

Sometimes the smallest, most esoteric discoveries can lead to groundbreaking changes in science and technology--like Percy Spencer's...

The nearest yet-discovered black holes are still thousands of light years away from Earth, so getting to one and seeing it with our...

By 1972, the Vietnam War was close to its end, though it would still take three more years for Saigon to fall. In the wake of the...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...

You probably don't think of the math that goes into everything you eat, but that's really what a recipe is: math with a bit of...

Noted quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger was recently quoted as saying “I’m personally of the opinion that in the future,...

Back in February, SpaceX and Elon Musk launched a 2008 Tesla Roadster and its "astronaut" (a mannequin named Starman) into space...

Recently, researchers at the University of Basque were able to model Darwinian evolution in simulated cells using a quantum computer,...

Earlier this year, NASA announced that the next stop for the New Horizons spacecraft after Pluto would be Ultima Thule, a distant...

We've said this before, but we'll say it again: black holes are weird. Stephen Hawking once thought they were gateways to another...

Stephen Hawking apparently spent his last days sorting through some of the biggest, most mind-blowing problems in science, including...

There was a time when physics experiments could be carried out with two weighted balls and a tower in Pisa (although Galileo's famous...

If someone asked you to draw an electron, what shape would your masterpiece take? Physicists recently used lasers in an experiment to...

In Westeros, Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane is famous for being stupidly strong, but we didn't expect the real-life...

A few years ago, the Planck survey gave scientists a picture of where dark matter might be lurking across the universe. That survey...

You can walk into a store or museum right now and buy a meteorite for a couple bucks, but the odds of getting your hands on a pack of...

One of the most-hyped fears about the Large Hadron Collider before it was first turned on was the theory that it might inadvertently...

Los Alamos scientists joked about the Manhattan Project's nuclear bomb test setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire, but it turns out...