Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now ...

Unorthodox though it is, his work has been highly impactful and widely celebrated: Nagel won the 1999 Oliver E. Buckley Prize ...

Companies and stakeholders discussed the importance of nuclear fusion at the Great Lakes Fusion Energy Summit and announced a ...

Konstantin Vodopyanov, a professor at the College of Sciences and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, recently ...

Finding out whether gravity – and therefore space-time itself – is quantum in nature has long been thought impossible. But ...

it would overhaul our understanding of all particle physics – and now physicists have identified a way to test this radical idea in an experiment. Certain elementary particles have a property ...

The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created.

Although soft-bodied robots themselves can be fairly simple, low-cost devices, they typically require complex onboard ...

The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of ...

Researchers in the Netherlands have created mechanical structures that strangely shrink – or more precisely, snap inward – ...