What We're Reading

It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we humans will understand the result.

Thawing permafrost is releasing microorganisms, with consequences that are still largely unknown.

A new analysis by Kris Pardo, a cosmologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and David Spergel, a cosmologist at Princeton University and director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics underscores how hard it is to explain away dark matter.

One of the great icons of human curiosity, the Arecibo radio telescope, is going to be torn down, the National Science Foundation, its owner, announced today.

High-precision metrology based on the peculiarities of the subatomic world.

A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Researchers have figured out that it can work.

Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history.

The Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries will bring together concepts in applied mathematics, theoretical and computational physics, modern optics and photonics, and acoustics.

A California team will use a robotic vehicle to study tiny seafloor creatures, hoping they might yield new compounds to fight viruses and cancer.

Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity — and even a method to test it experimentally