If you've read Project Hail Mary, you know it's packed with pages and pages of science. Between Rocky the alien and the mysterious Petrova Line in outer space to those deadly Astrophage organisms, it ...

He has completed his academic career by finishing his PhD, flying back to Germany with his dad, and preparing for his next educational pursuit. This time, he will be studying medical science with a ...

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This week, CERN announced that it has detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) called the Xi-cc-plus. It's a very heavy particle, with a mass four times that of ...

A breakthrough deterministic physics kernel delivers molecular, materials, and reaction screening across three ...

The entire universe may have an internal mind—or the whole idea of consciousness could be a sham. Here’s why scientists still can’t agree.

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

A team at Idaho National Laboratory has developed a surrogate nuclear reactor that uses LEDs to safely simulate ...

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is being ‘realigned’ following a broader restructuring of the agency.