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

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, ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the shape of an electron in solids, opening the door to advances in quantum materials.

Physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of 'modes' within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and ...