The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key ...

Shattered glass does not leap back into your hand. Smoke from a match does not gather itself and crawl back inside. In ...

Particle accelerators have been responsible for revolutionary scientific breakthroughs, but the tech behind them isn't as ...

This means that, due to time dilation, you would age faster on Mars than on Earth. If you were to spend a whole 50 years on the Red Planet, you’d end up a whole 9 seconds older than if you had stayed ...

A research team at VTT MIKES has set a new record in optical-clock absolute frequency measurements using a strontium ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

A green spectacle. With protective eyewear, ISTA PHD student Andrea Stöllner takes a glimpse into the experimental chamber (in the foreground) where two laser beams trap a single particle. One ...

Journalists at The Associated Press utilize a set of standards and practices that safeguards AP stories from bias and inaccuracies. AP’s audio content always must be accurate. We do not alter or ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Tim Hsieh of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. We explore some of today’s hottest topics in quantum science and technology ...

What initiates the first spark of lightning has long been the core mystery of a thunderstorm. Now, a new experiment at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is shedding light on the ...

Using electrons to probe a molecule's nucleus, scientists have demonstrated an elusive phenomenon. (Image credit: Iana Kunitsa via Getty Images) Physicists have studied a rare molecule to look at how ...