Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency ...

A thin piece of gold reached 33,740 degrees Fahrenheit, which is more than 14 times higher than its melting point, by being rapidly heated—and it didn't melt ...

It's Saturday! Let's review the last seven days of research findings: In a kind of logistics/transport breakthrough, ...

Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, the team blasted the ...

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a ...

Evolution cannot explain biological complexity without violating some fundamental laws of nature, specifically, the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If you recall, we mentioned the Second Law of Thermody ...

Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

In the strange, often unintuitive world of quantum physics, one mystery has stood out for decades: Can quantum entanglement be manipulated in a reversible way, like energy in a perfect heat engine?

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld a law allowing survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file a lawsuit no matter how long ago the alleged abuse occurred, resulting in John Lousteau being awarded $… ...

A new law that went into effect on July 1 imposes harsher penalties to what the state calls ‘super speeders’ – and the first offender was nabbed just two minutes after it went into effect.

This will be the first Fourth of July with a ban on celebratory gunfire in Missouri, and the law has already been enforced in cities across the state.