Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Behind a freshly painted wall, a single shortcut splice can quietly turn into a heating element you never meant to install.

Innovation flourishes not because people collaborate more broadly but because the right people fall into productive orbit ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently granted to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, renowned for their pioneering works in protein design.

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Understanding how dendrites that form in thin films could be the key to next-generation materials for beyond-5G ...

Scientists have long believed that foam behaves like glass, with bubbles locked into place. New simulations reveal that ...