For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

There just might be a way for white holes to form in the Universe. According to a new, highly theoretical paper, the ...

Researchers recorded footballer movement and how close they were to the ball, and found something truly bizarre.

And yet, the vast majority of the laws of physics don’t seem to care about the direction of time at all. The equations that govern everything—from subatomic particles to the orbits of planets ...

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a ...

If you’ve ever bitten into a perfectly flaky croissant or savored the delicate layers of a mille-feuille, you know French ...

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to ...

Modern AI technology is data-hungry. In many areas, data is scarce. For example, in our work in early oncology clinical trials, we only have data on about 20 patients, so we tend to use theory-based ...

Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed one of the biggest head-scratchers in modern ...