The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

Known as earthquake lights, these luminous phenomena have left geologists and physicists searching for answers. Typically ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

P hilip Pullman’s young-adult fantasy classic The Golden Compass was published in 1995, two years before Harry Potter and the ...

Red White & Blue Thrift Store isn’t shopping—it’s a full-contact treasure hunt where the spoils go to the bold, the patient, and those willing to dig through mountains of castoffs to find gold. The ...

Tucked away on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, where authentic New York life hums along without tourist fanfare, exists a bargain hunter’s nirvana that might be the city’s most underappreciated retail ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead national and breaking news coverage and shapes editorial workflows. President Trump's missile defense project, called the ...

It’s hard to convert energy from the ocean into electricity, thanks to a tough regulatory environment and, well, the ocean.

A radiation of frequency v has to be considered as divided into atoms of light of very small internal mass (-io~50 gm.) which move with a velocity very nearly equal to c given by -=2=^=to. The atom *J ...

Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) are a crucial component of space weather, presenting significant hazards to human activities ...