How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

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Black holes are some of the strangest and most powerful objects in the universe, and for all our advances in […] ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

The moon will be rising before 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesdays and will be more than evident not long after nightfall.

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

Physics faculty say the fellowship, given to 6 women and nonbinary students, was cut for following the former DOE's ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...