A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors could in theory protect the U.S. from an all-out Russian nuclear ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

A strange molecular pattern, first mistaken for an error, led researchers to an unexpected discovery: molecules forming ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

A space telescope has made a significant discovery, uncovering its first Einstein ring, which scientists believe will help us ...

Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist Pioneering female Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with ...