Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.

The Large Hadron Collider is heading for another extended shutdown, a planned pause that will take the world’s most powerful ...

Installation view of Will Clift’s exhibition, “Still Points, Turning World,” at Gerald Peters Contemporary in Santa Fe.

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Researchers have finally resolved a century-old debate over the famous "double slit" experiment, according to new research.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

China’s EAST reactor just broke a fundamental fusion limit—bringing the dream of ignition a big step closer. shutterstock.

By realizing a novel high-density operating scheme on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting ...

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...

In one of the rockiest years yet for science, Philadelphia-area researchers still managed to celebrate many wins. Here are five of them.

From science-fiction technologies like warp drives and levitation to the search for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in ...