While an antimatter engine is very far off, researching it could yield other discoveries as well.

Don Lincon, a senior scientist at the U.S. particle physics laboratory Fermilab, describes bosons as “puppies of the ...

Scientists successfully induced a new magnetic state in an antiferromagnet using only light, which could have big ...

Since the close of World War II, more than 115 people have died from encounters with unexploded ordnance in the North Sea—but ...

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In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...

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Pilots don’t have real-time data about the thousands of low-orbit, sun-reflecting objects zooming around Earth. There’s a fix ...

When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption cooled the Earth’s atmosphere by 1 degree Celsius and even caused the Sun to appear in ...