Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, or ΛCDM—relies on hypothesized dark energy to explain the ...

In 1893, during his meeting with Swami Vivekananda, Nikola Tesla found inspiration for energy concepts in Eastern philosophy.

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

This important theoretical study examines the possibility of encoding genomic information in a collective of short overlapping strands (e.g., the Virtual Circular Genome (VCG) model). The study ...

Researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a breakthrough technique that ...

From the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have thought that all particles can be categorized into one of two ...

Physicists turn to supercomputers to help build a 3D picture of the structures of protons and neutrons. A team of scientists ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to ...

The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius. While the white dwarf won't erupt in a supernova ...

There is one notable exception to this strict rule of quantum-state segregation. Restricted to just two dimensions, some ...