Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmology. Columnist Leah Crane ...

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a shelf and my mother’s ashes in the cupboard above t ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only under specific conditions that researchers have struggled for decades to ...

The KM3NeT Collaboration, operating a partially built neutrino detector on the Mediterranean seafloor off the coast of Sicily, has recorded a cosmic neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV, ...

The KM3NeT Collaboration detected a single neutrino with an estimated energy of 220 peta-electronvolts on 13 February 2023, ...

You would have just seconds to make the right decision after a nuclear explosion and many would make the wrong choice ...