As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world’s decision-making is ...

Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected ...

Human bodies are not quite as dark as they look. A growing body of research suggests that living tissue constantly releases ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

From the Smithsonian magazine archives, some of our favorite reader questions about our nation's founding upon its 250th ...

Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s strategic partnerships with private fusion companies and public research ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

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