In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Work reveals new ways to understand and manipulate electrons in materials. MIT physicists, in collaboration with colleagues, ...

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When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Yale researchers discovered new cochlear hearing modes that influence how the ear amplifies sound and processes frequencies.

NEW YORK — Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...