A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Electrons in graphene can act like a perfect fluid, defying established physical laws. This finding advances both fundamental ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

Green lasers promise sharper visibility on construction sites, but powering and mass-producing them pose hidden engineering ...

Firstly, the answer to this question is going to be different for everyone, from seasoned half marathon runners chasing PBs and breaking records, to those crossing the line for the first time. The ...

There are certain rules that the universe seems to follow in our everyday world. We can observe how objects are affected by their immediate surroundings, and we can see cause and effect in action. We ...

Human reproduction is an inefficient process, with less than one third of conceptions leading to live births. Failure of the embryo to implant in the uterus is one of the main causes of miscarriage.

Raymond M. Vince, "The Great Gatsby" and the Transformations of Space-Time: Fitzgerald's Modernist Narrative and the New Physics of Einstein, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Vol. 5 (2006), pp. 86-108 ...

Iga Swiatek’s Wimbledon title run has helped her to surge up to No 3 on the all-time WTA career prize money leaders list as she became only the fourth women’s tennis player to break through the $40m ...

The chart represents the caloric breakdown of the average person’s daily consumption. Swipe through the timeline to see how the source and distribution of calories has changed over the last fifty ...