Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

A new type of OLED can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from just one form of light-emitting ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar system lacks such a planet, scientists don’t know much about how they form. Astronomers ...

A colossal detector buried beneath China is now catching invisible cosmic particles. What it found so far is stunning.

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Classic anime outside of Hayao Miyazaki’s work has never really made serious inroads with the Academy voters during Oscar ...