Physics

Electric vehicles promise to help wean us off of fossil fuels, but they introduce a new problem: how to get […]

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people

Bhavin Shastri still gets excited when he sees a laser pointer, and he’s been fascinated by them since he was

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted

Stitches are getting a shocking upgrade. In an experiment in rats, a new strong, flexible thread hastened wound healing by

Cancer-busting particle beams have been caught in the act. Particle beams can provide a blast of destructive energy directly to

Quantum entanglement has made its way to the top. Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement in top

An asteroid heading toward Earth can be deflected without ever touching a spacecraft. The trick is to use X-rays to

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The

To feed artificial intelligence’s voracious appetite for energy, tech companies are turning to small nuclear reactors. Last week, Google and