Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Check out the press program for the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit today. The conference will be held in Denver and online everywhere March 15-20.

Louisiana Tech University senior Jesse Webb will represent the United States this April at the NYU Abu Dhabi International ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest fast radio burst ever detected and traced it to a nearby galaxy using a new network of CHIME Outrigger telescopes. The flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, lasted only a ...

Experts are calling for the cryptographic systems on which the entire network depends to be made ready now for the imminent ...

As a professional mechanical engineer, Badri Ratnam was inspired when MIT started offering massive open online courses (MOOCs ...

Leveraging expertise from leading research institutions, the company is developing the AI platform technical organizations will rely on to design, verify, and deploy complex hardware systems at scale.

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Sean and Flora reunite in Kissing Is the Easy Part, but the ending reveals why the airport scene was never the real resolution ...

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...