Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

The chemical signatures we're observing may reflect both the comet's ancient origins and its long journey through ...

Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

The origins of extremely high-energy particles that fill the universe—such as protons, electrons, and neutrinos—remain one of ...

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

Searching for clues in the Epoch of Reionization, scientists discovered that the universe was quite a bit warmer before the ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

What occurs when electrons escape from a solid material? Though it may appear straightforward, this process has long resisted ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

A long-dismissed theory involving "cosmic knots" could help explain the origins of neutrino masses, dark matter, and other ...