Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once.

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

Modern cellphones are also built on the work of today’s winners from 40 years ago.

UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara professor Michel H. Devoret and UC Santa Barbara professor John M. Martinis were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics for their ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other methods fail.

Now that current NYC Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out of the race, the election is really down to three major candidates. Here's an overview of where Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa stand on major issues.

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The State Department wants to use artificial intelligence agents that can take action for employees, the department's chief information ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The city of Nashville received state approval to use housing pods to get homeless people off the streets in October 2024. However, nearly a year later, the housing pods have ...