Helium-3 discovery in Minnesota is sparking big energy claims, but the science, rarity, and real-world limits matter more ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

At the heart of our sun, fusion is unfolding. As hydrogen atoms merge to form helium, they emit energy, producing the heat ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

We’ve had quantum science on our minds all year long, courtesy of 2025 being UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum Science ...

Drilling at the Topaz Project near Babbitt detected helium-3 around 14.5 ppb—comparable to Apollo lunar samples—within deep ...

Experiments show Josephson junction-like behavior can arise with only one superconductor, challenging the standard two-superconductor model.

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

Libby Rosemeier, a former George Stevens Academy student in the Twinkie experiment class, and Roger Bennatti, the now-retired ...

Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape ...

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...