The concept of light has fascinated scientists for centuries. A recent MIT experiment has reignited the debate about its dual nature. The MIT team revisited a classic experiment with ...

Classical physics taught that light waves pass through each other unaffected, but quantum mechanics couldn’t resist the ...

The big bang ought to have spread energy homogeneously. What explains clumps of galaxies with vast spaces between them?

An international team of researchers has cooled the spinning motion of a nanoparticle to its quantum ground state, achieving ...

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

On Aug. 3, the Portland Art Museum Center for an Untold Tomorrow (PAM CUT) hosted an exclusive screening event featuring ...

The apple of Loeb’s eye is a 6-12 mi.-wide rocky body discovered on July 1 with a telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, that is part of NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey ...

Bombardier Tom Ferebee talked with The Charlotte Observer for the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Large wildfires in remote regions of Canada sent smoke billowing across the border, inundating northern New England with ...