The new science fiction film adaptation leans heavily on real science done by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with ...

In recent years, interdisciplinarity has become one of the central themes in higher education and research policy. Funding ...

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, is predicted to account for most of the matter in ...

You may have heard the urban legend that a penny dropped from the top of a skyscraper can kill a person or crack the sidewalk ...

Most people know Albert Einstein as the mind behind E = mc². You might also have heard the story that he struggled in school ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

Springfield schools recognized 59 high school seniors for their academic achievements Thursday night at the ROSE banquet. See ...

YouTuber and orbital mechanics expert Scott Manley has successfully landed a virtual Kerbal astronaut on the Mun, the in-game moon of Kerbal Space Program, using a ZX Spectrum home computer equipped ...

I’m giving a talk online tomorrow at the 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in the Special Session on Non-Associative Rings and Algebras. The organizers ...