Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do ...

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

But after reading Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, a book published in March 2025 by the physicist Wojciech Zurek, I’m excited by the possibility of an answer that does away with all those fanciful ...

On a remote island in the Indian Ocean, six closely watched bats took to the star-draped skies. As they flew across the seven-acre speck of land, devices implanted in their brains pinged data back to ...

Imagine if our skies were always filled with a thick layer of opaque clouds. With no way to see the stars, or to view our planet from above, would we have ever discovered that the Earth is round? The ...