A flat earther attempted to explain why space travel was impossible. At first, the argument sounded confident. As basic ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

A young visitor interacts with a mechanical experiment inside a science museum, demonstrating basic physics concepts such as motion, force, and balance. By pulling and operating the metal device, the ...

In a study published this week in Physical Review Letters, an international team of astronomers tested cosmic observations ...

Ghost Murmur was described as a futuristic CIA tool that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances. Physicists say the ...

After a successful flight around the moon, the astronauts are relying on a flawed heat shield to protect them as they ...

To solve this, researchers at Generalist strapped wearable pincers, dubbed “data hands,” onto human workers. These devices ...

The University of Chicago Alumni Association and the Alumni Board have announced the recipients of the 2026 Alumni Awards.

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

The Bloch Sphere is a visual model used to represent the state of a qubit, the basic unit of information in quantum computing ...

But it has proved in the past decade that it can be an innovation powerhouse. China is now far ahead of the United States in manufacturing and deploying advanced technologies such as electric vehicles ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...