It began as a daring experiment combining physics, gravity, and sheer curiosity. From a 200-meter height, 100 basketballs ...

Study finds dark matter may follow the same laws as ordinary matter on cosmic scales, though unknown forces could still be at play in this abundant, unseen substance.

Physicists have designed a protocol to study high-temperature superconductivity on an experimentally realizable platform ...

The Action Lab explores the fascinating science behind perpetual motion and the famous Egg of Columbus experiment.

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the seafloor.

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

“Melissa is moving unusually slow – reportedly at 2–5 miles per hour – which means that it became particularly intense before ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Fun fact: an instant ice pack can go past airport security as a solid, not a liquid. The day I trekked to Adobe MAX, I ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

A newly formed black hole, GW190412, was captured fleeing at 180,000 km/h; scientists track its entire cosmic trajectory for the first time.