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

Key TakeawaysFor the first time, researchers simultaneously used ultrafast X-rays and electrons to image a shockwave in water ...

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University, was named Tuesday the next president of Caltech, ...

From bone-chilling psychological twists to gravity-defying action sequences, certain cinematic moments transcend the screen ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

Two decades after its splashy debut at CES, Blu-ray is still spinning in living rooms, even as streaming dominates the way ...

The world feels ordinary until a single detail shifts your perspective. A quiet fact can linger in your thoughts, reshaping ...