Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Electrons determine everything: how chemical reactions unfold, how materials conduct electricity, how biological molecules ...

Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality. When you purchase through links on our ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

It is late November, and that means the return of Survivor Series and the WarGames match. The five vs. five match inside a double ring surrounded by a cage is one of the highlights of the WWE calendar ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

He was a gentleman who helped create the world’s most deadly weapon; a humble man who collected as many honors as almost any man of his time. Before he died of a heart attack last week at 77, Danish ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

Applied physics is the study of physics for a practical purpose, as opposed to physics motived solely for an improved fundamental understanding. This includes technological advances such as the ...

Quantum deviations Large masses such as a galaxy curve space–time and objects move along geodesics within this curvature. If space–time itself has quantum properties, then deviations arise between a ...