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 ...

The research, ... Simulations of quantum many-body systems are an important goal for nuclear and high-energy physics. Many-body problems involve systems that consist of many microscopic particles ...

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 ...

In March last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its climate risk disclosure rule, called “The Enhancement ...