Rumours across social media platforms that a huge comet is on a collision course with Earth have been circulating, with some users describing it as a major threat to humanity. Others are debating how ...

Michio Kaku, a Harvard graduate and theoretical physicist, is renowned for his work in string theory and science ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) My former academic institution discontinued my affiliation with them after members of the community complained about my criticism, on their research, and on academic conduct ...

Massive 7.8 earthquake hits Russia, Hawaii tsunami threat under evaluation 'We can't be silently passive': Jason Bateman reacts to Kimmel suspension As US reliability falters, Saudi Arabia turns to a ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear out of thin films instead of electron-positron pairs in a vacuum. Their ...

Charles Kane, a theoretical physicist at Penn, will receive the Lorentz Medal for his research on topological insulators, considered a landmark recent scientific advance, writes Molly McVety for ...

Matter behaves strangely at the quantum scale, where forces can bind three or more atoms even when two alone would not stay together. Purdue University researchers have now completed a massive quantum ...

"We're stuck at type zero. But what would it take to move between universes? What would it take to enter a black hole? What would it take to break the light barrier?" Police investigate mass shooting ...

Scientists uncovered universal laws of entanglement in any dimension. The results strengthen links between particle physics, quantum theory, and gravity. A group of theoretical physicists has shown ...

Joining the sweeping theory of general relativity to the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest challenge in modern physics. Each has been borne out on its own scale by ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...