Written as pure mathematics in 1914, Ramanujan’s formulas lay unnoticed for a century. Scientists now say they mirror the ...

Fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even a few mammals rely on magnetoreception for navigation. But the exact mechanism ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That ...

Scientists may have finally unlocked the unusual role quasiparticles known as "anyons" play in a pair of quantum experiments ...

The telecom networks originally built to carry phone calls and packets of data are in the midst of a dramatic shift. The past ...

Jim Jarmusch's latest, an anthology about families, is about words not spoken, and people gone but not forgotten.

Angus Sliders, the second novel in the Bureau Archives Trilogy by award-winning author Alexander Bentley, has received the esteemed Literary Titan Book Award, recognizing its exceptional storytelling, ...

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

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.