An artist’s impression of Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua, the oldest compact pair of quasars ever observed. Quasars are actively feeding ...

Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have found the strongest evidence yet for one of nature’s rarest known ...

Even though sharks have a reputation in popular culture as being fearsome predators, the survey showed that 69 percent of ...

But a new genetic study suggests the reality is far more complex. Researchers analyzed DNA from 1,226 Tibetans living in the ...

Imagine reading a sentence. By the time you reach the final word, your brain is still holding onto the first few words long enough to make sense of the whole phrase. The same thing happens when you ...

At-home COVID-19 tests work because they use a clever molecular trick known as a sandwich assay. One molecule grabs the virus, another molecule grabs the same virus from a different side, and together ...

In the simulated image of the Earth's magnetic field, the solar wind comes from the right in the image and Kelvin-Helmholtz waves are visible at the top. The color indicates the density of the plasma.

An illustration of a wallpaper harvesting indoor moisture to generate electricity Credit: Binghamton University Wallpaper indoors holds an aesthetic value. Other than that, they don’t do much. But a ...

For decades, physicists have been haunted by a simple question: Why does anything exist at all? According to our best theories, the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.

MIT engineers developed a soft robot that can flap through water in response to flashes of light. Credits: Photo: Melanie Gonick, MIT At first glance, it looks more like a sliver of transparent gel ...

This image shows back-to-back jets produced in the quark-gluon plasma formed when two oxygen nuclei collide at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The jet near the edge of the plasma, upper ...