Since childhood, we’ve been told gravity is the force that holds everything together — but what if that idea is incomplete, ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica have some major themes in common, and star Edward James Olmos makes a strong case for a ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

And just like that, Fiorentina will go onto win its remaining 25 league games, securing a spot in the Champions League, as ...

Although for one of you, the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don’t keep the devil waiting, old friend ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...