The 10 students on the Centaurus team, who have dubbed themselves “Team Centauri Stars,” will travel in August to a lab in ...

At a time when ‘being green’ matters more than ever, a team of Cambridge researchers has devised a way to power electronic ...

NASA wants to set fire to the moon – no, really. If conducted, the experiment would be the first time humanity has set fire ...

Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without initially relying on chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation.

The first hints of what's behind the seemingly illogical mismatch between photochemical reactivity and absorptivity could ...

A staple for summertime activities- fireworks! Where do they get their characteristic color from? I traveled down to the ...

The discovery could improve our understanding of how black holes lose energy and may help solve long-standing mysteries such ...

Hawking radiation is a form of radiation emitted by black holes, as theoretically predicted by Stephen Hawking. It suggests ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Can darkness really travel faster than light? A surprising new physics experiment suggests it can—at least in a very unusual way. Scientists observed dark regions within light waves moving faster than ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks ...

It has been known since the 1960s that the quantum statistical properties of light have a role in optical processes 3. For example, when more than one photon is required to ionize an atom, random ...