Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Physicists are rapidly expanding the traditional menu of matter beyond solids, liquids, gases and plasmas, uncovering exotic ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Most starships in Star Trek are able to travel across the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds through the use of warp drives ...

Foams are everywhere: soap suds, shaving cream, whipped toppings and food emulsions like mayonnaise. For decades, scientists ...

Spoilersahead for "Stranger Things" season 5, volume 2. The Upside Down looks a bit different in "Stranger Things" season 5. Now, there's a military lab stationed inside it, along with a massive, ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Imagine an epic video game with your favorite hero as a character. Another character is a ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that there are three states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—but in advanced physics, things get ...

I feel about Scotland the way many Europeans feel about America: I love its people, revere its history, relish its architecture and topography and regard its present-day politics with sadness. By ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...