A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal ...

Discover Narinder Singh Kapany, the Indian physicist who invented fibre optics but never won the Nobel Prize., People, Times ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

With support from APL, former staff members John Sittmann and Tom Curtis have launched Deep Root Biolabs, a startup advancing ...

On Tuesday, the Doomsday Clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight - midnight represents the moment at which people will have ...

A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the ...

Abbas Nikroo, deputy director for physics integration at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility ...

An early black hole feeds too fast—yet still blasts X-rays and radio jets.

In the course of his life, Galileo clashed with other philosophers and religious figures who were committed to the geocentric ...

At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.

Solar cells face significant challenges when deployed in outer space, where extremes in the environment decrease the efficiency and longevity they enjoy back on Earth. University of Toledo physicists ...