Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti's 'Phenomena' is a gorgeous close-up study of the natural forces shaping and driving the ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

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

Researchers from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH) and the department of physics at the University of Houston have broken the temperature record for superconductivity at ambient ...

The spacecraft slowed down the system's 76,000 mph orbital speed... by two inches per hour. We're going to have to punch a lot harder if we want to save Earth.

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.

Inside Sandpoint High School’s gym, elementary school students inflated cow lungs, flinched at bowling balls and made bubble tea boba as a part of the annual Science Circuit.

Researchers, government, academic and industry leaders from across California gathered at UC Santa Barbara on Friday to explore the university’s ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

What’s “inside” a black hole? Are they portals to another universe, or are actually other universes in miniature? Those are ...

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