In an era of high anxiety about artificial intelligence, one former Harvard physicist is using it to explore God.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of a comet breaking apart that could offer new insights into the early days of the universe.

Dr. Michael Guillén says his deep understanding of science — including modern cosmology and human consciousness — ...

Arthur Middleton Elementary in Waldorf lands a $4,000 micro-grant from United Way of Southern Maryland for a 10-session applied physics after-school program, where students build Rube Goldberg ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

A magnetic crystal that was thought to behave like a quantum system, CeMgAl11O19, revealed something even stranger: a new ...

If you’ve ever felt a shock after rubbing your hair with a balloon or shuffling across a carpet, you’ll know that static electricity can be a real pain. But for the scientists who study it, the pain ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

Leah Broussard, a research scientist in the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...