Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

Electrons in graphene break a key law of metals and reveal a strange quantum fluid. The discovery has surprised scientists.

As I’m sure you’re aware, for many years, there was a rule for following distance — namely, you should leave one car length between you and the car in front of you for every 10 mph of speed. Now, ...

Bugg, former head of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's physics department, recently passed away at age 95. Under his leadership, the department gained national stature and formed key ...

Malin Starrett on the scientist Ireland should never forget ...

Located just 35 light-years away, this world is roughly 1.6 times the size of Earth. But don’t call it a twin. It’s a scorching, pungent orb wrapped in an atmosphere of hydrogen and sulfur, perched ...

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking perspectives?

As racks surge from 10 kW to well over 100 kW, the air itself has become a design variable. The emerging science of “airflow intelligence,” a new discipline linking clean air ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Andy Weir, who also penned The Martian, Amazon ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about it Jettisoned junk A pallet of old batteries released into space from the ...

On March 14, 1883, Karl Marx died in London, closing the life of a thinker whose ideas helped reshape modern politics, labor movements, and debates about ...