Deep Fission, a young California company, is preparing to start building a nuclear reactor a mile below ground, sealed inside ...

Dark matter, the invisible glue that outweighs normal matter in the cosmos, is starting to look less like a passive backdrop ...

Fundamental physics faces a stubborn paradox: the current impossibility of reconciling the rules of the quantum world with ...

Have you ever wondered why when you throw something into the air it falls straight back to the ground? This is because of gravity, an invisible force which acts on objects, pulling them towards the ...

We don’t often think about gravity, the invisible force that anchors us to Earth, as it always seems constant and dependable. However, it will slightly vary, sometimes by enough to make you weigh ...

How are controversial ideas handled by modern science? A common charge leveled against science (generally by those who are unhappy with its conclusions) is that the only way to get funding or continue ...

A study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has revealed a previously unknown pathway plants use to detect ...