Making it work would require pulling a lot of (cosmic) strings—but perhaps we need wild explanations to explain wild events.

In making our predictions we sometimes rely on an infographic that we have been updating for a decade or so. It shows the ...

Yukawa was born in Tokyo on 23 January 1907 graduating from Kyoto University in 1929. He then moved to Osaka University in ...

A second-generation planet might be orbiting a white dwarf, in an astronomy first, according to new research.

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One theory points to a long-awaited supersymmetric particle called a ‘higgsino.’ But that idea has some issues.

Grandmothers can be wonderful role models for kids! Sometimes even more so than the children's actual mother. Here we have ...

In the conventional diagram of an atom, the center depicts a nucleus—a spherical cluster of protons and neutrons. But that ...

Jonathan Oppenheim says scientists may be looking for answers to the biggest mystery in physics in the wrong place. According ...

According to historians, the Manhattan Project began as a response to Nazi Germany’s perceived lead in nuclear technology.