For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Real-time microscopy and AI reveal how atomic wetting controls tin oxide nanowire growth inside carbon nanotubes, uncovering ...

Why societies fall apart isn’t politics or morals, an author argues—it’s cognitive failure, a pattern he says can be scientifically tested. Evil doesn’t take over societies by force or intelligence.

“That ratio is tremendously positive,” said IDF Spokesman Jonathan Conricus when asked in December 2023 about Israel’s assessment that it had killed two Palestinian civilians for every one Hamas ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world. This is how countless films and stories describe it, but scientists have always ...

How cold is space? Does it ever drop to absolute zero, and what happens if you fall into it without a spacesuit? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The theory that gravitons lose energy thru gravitational redshift while traveling against the force of a gravitational field ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be ...