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

If you’re reading this column Sunday morning, I’m currently on the road headed north to the University of Vermont to watch my ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

Imagine industrial processes that make materials or chemical compounds faster, cheaper, and with fewer steps than ever before ...

In March 1979, one of two reactors at the Three Mile Island plant in central Pennsylvania partially melted down, in what is ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

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Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds rather than decades. Remarkably, quantum technology first appeared in the early 1900s. It originated ...

Understanding The Fundamentals Of Teleportation Teleportation. It’s a word that instantly brings to mind spaceships and ...

Chen-Ning “C.N.” Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and founder of Stony Brook University’s C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, died in Beijing, China at 103 years old on Saturday, Oct. 18 ...

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly ...