Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

For decades, physics has explained the transition from the quantum world to the classical world as a loss: coherence dissipates, superposition collapses, ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...

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Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...

From fat cells that stretch like spandex to more flexible muscles, scientists are finding that women’s bodies are just as ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

A wild winter storm is bringing strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast. The storm ...

A strengthening bomb cyclone is barreling across the northern United States, unleashing severe winter weather in the Midwest ...