Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Suni Williams conducted a record-breaking spacewalk outside the ISS. An amateur astrophotographer photographed her from Earth ...

Work reveals new ways to understand and manipulate electrons in materials. MIT physicists, in collaboration with colleagues, ...

Physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles that ...

Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides ...

I said, ‘Why don’t we start another interesting challenge: making the Spidey adhesive,’ and here we are.” Lo Presti is both a fan of Spider-Man and a research assistant professor at the Tufts ...

Knowing how to complete all EMF experiments in Spider-Man 2 will help you earn the 'Foundational' trophy and lead you to a rather heart warming moment for Peter. There are eight EMF experiment ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

This three-year programme offers a variant of the advanced study offered in the Physics BSc. You will develop specialised knowledge of the theoretical structure of the core topics in physics. The ...

When a large amount of salt is poured into the pan, it forms a circle at the bottom, before the perturbed flow causes the salt to radiate outwards, leaving a hole in the middle. If the salt is dropped ...