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The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?

A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation.

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.

AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.

In all directions, at great distances, the Universe looks younger, more uniform, and less evolved. Does that mean Earth must be the center?

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?

Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.

The laws of physics don’t prefer matter over antimatter. So how can we be certain that distant stars & galaxies aren’t made of antimatter?

If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?

Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?

While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.

When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.

The hot Big Bang was an energetic, brilliantly luminous event. Today’s Universe is alight with stars. But in between, the dark ages ruled.

Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.

Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?

Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.

The Universe didn’t begin with a bang, but with an inflationary “whoosh” that came before. Here are the biggest questions that still remain.

Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.

Light can be turned into heat, which can then be turned into motion, and the effect of that motion can be turned into a big squeeze.

Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.

Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.

Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

Lithium-ion batteries pose challenges for our transition toward renewable energy. Sodium-sulfur batteries might be a solution.

It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.

Scientists will be able to make detailed “Claymation-like” movies of chemical reactions.

Quarks and leptons are the smallest known subatomic particles. Does the Standard Model allow for an even smaller layer of matter to exist?