P hysicists might have found a glueball. This is not something you get by rubbing vinyl glue between your fingers. It is a ...

As we've seen over the last few hundred years on our own planet, intelligent civilizations can quickly abandon old detectable ...

An easy way to see this intuitively is to send balls rotating around a circle, then quickly releasing them and watching what ...

To square quantum entanglement with the second law of thermodynamics, scientists needed to show that entanglement ...

Cometary globules are a special type of Bok Globules that have been known since 1976. But even after 50 years, they remain extremely difficult to observe. The reason for this is that the gas and dust ...

A new study has suggested that a gene variant thought only to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease could actually be one genetic cause of the condition.

F or the first time, a fighter jet controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) has recently been pitted against a human-controlled jet in a practice dogfight scenario. The boundary-breaking test flight ...

E arth is the only planet we know of that has ever had a fire. While there may be volcanos pushing out hot magma on the surface of Venus, the hottest planet in the Solar System, there has never been a ...

For the first time, scientists have described some of the basic elements of how they may be "talking" to each other.

It started turning late last year.

If you have ever dreamed of flying into a black hole, but the idea of your body getting spaghettified (yes, this is a real scientific term) into plasma is not appealing, NASA has a solution. Dive into ...

It’s often said that to know your enemy, you must become your enemy – and when that enemy happens to be fake news, a new study of a game where players become “fake newsmongers” suggests it really does ...