It's the 18th hole and the game's on the line. You line up your putt, take a breath, and roll the ball toward the hole. The ...

Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...