Scientists spotted the heavy water (which we'll get into in just a moment) in the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

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Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for ...

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum ...

Mastermind viewers have taken to social media to blast a contestant for his 'disastrous' general knowledge round on Monday's ...

A single speck of light—captured inside a lab at Oxford—turned the abstract into the tangible. It didn’t just win a prize; it ...

As the nucleus splits, it also releases its neutrons. These neutrons bounce around at incredible speeds until some eventually ...

In a collaboration showing the power of innovation and teamwork, physicists and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a mobile muon detector that promises to ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...