For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

Elon Musk shared a personal detail about his family. His partner, Shivon Zilis, has Indian roots. Their son's middle name, ...

In a groundbreaking study, UC Santa Cruz researchers have shown that developing brain tissue exhibits spontaneous activity ...

The district is expanding its weighted grading system, currently applied to AP and dual credit courses, to honors classes.

Cornell Tech just landed more than $7 million from NASA and Schmidt Sciences to give arXiv — the massive open-access research hub — a serious upgrade. The money will help arXiv modernize its ...

Tuen, Chair Professor of the Department of Physics and the Director of Research Office at The Hong Kong University of Science ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

The University of Chicago, where Fermi split the atom in 1942, is becoming the center of a new form of advanced technology.

A view of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China's "artificial sun," in Hefei, East China's ...

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements ...

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers ...

Astronomers have flagged a distant stellar object so extreme that, on paper, it should not exist. Its mass, brightness and ...