Hitting the Books: How 20th century science unmade Newton's universeMercury's orbit defies Newtonian physics, so why shouldn't the rest of creation?By A. Tarantola, 03.12.2023
Hitting the Books: What if 'Up' but pigeons?Swallows carrying coconuts were only the beginning. By A. Tarantola, 09.18.2022
CERN is making the Large Hadron Collider's data more accessibleIt's almost impossible for the organization to release raw datasets, however.By K. Holt, 12.11.2020
Scientists find neutrinos from star fusion for the first timeIt could help understand dark matter and the universe.By J. Fingas, 11.26.2020
High-speed camera captures a fluid behaving like a solidIt could shape the future of engineering.By J. Fingas, 08.15.2020
Astronomers find the first known regular pattern of fast radio burstsIt's coming from an unknown source beyond our galaxy.By J. Fingas, 06.17.2020
On May 20th, the kilogram will no longer be defined by a lump in FranceThe long-anticipated change goes into effect May 20th.By C. Fisher, 05.17.2019
CERN plans to build a collider four times bigger than the LHCThe $24-billion project will be 100 kilometers or 62 miles long. By M. Moon, 01.16.2019
MIT leads the way in spaghetti-based innovationScientists figured out how to snap dry noodles into two parts.By R. LeFebvre, 08.15.2018
Stanford's new lab could make particle accelerators 1,000 times smallerWe could understand the nature of atoms without giant colliders.By J. Fingas, 06.11.2018
NASA will create coldest place in the universe to study quantum physicsThe Cold Atom Lab just reached the International Space Station.By J. Fingas, 05.21.2018
Tangled 'particle' helps scientists model rare ball lightningIf you can't study it in nature, create it in the lab.By J. Fingas, 03.05.2018
World's coolest chip runs at near absolute zeroIt should help test physics at the very limit.By J. Fingas, 12.26.2017
‘Session’ doesn’t care about your pro-skater high scoresThe physics-based game will even have a special filming mode to capture and share your cool tricks.By R. LeFebvre, 11.24.2017
MIT's DIY muon detector sniffs out cosmic particlesAnd it only costs $100 to build.By R. England, 11.21.2017
Corkscrew light beams could lead to practical quantum computersSpecially-made surfaces can 'spin' light into strange forms.By J. Fingas, 11.05.2017
World's quickest laser pulse can track electrons in slow motionIt's shedding new light on how chemical reactions work.By J. Fingas, 10.29.2017
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to gravitational wave scientistsThey were recognized for their work at LIGO and Virgo.By S. Krishna, 10.03.2017
Work starts on a massive underground neutrino experimentScientists are a little closer to understanding the elusive particles.By J. Fingas, 07.23.2017