Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

In order to determine the spectral characteristics of the material (for example, the chemical composition at each point), we ...

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

Raymond Laflamme, a Canadian pioneer in the field of quantum information processing who once worked with Stephen Hawking, has ...

A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

The discovery reveals a hidden layer of complexity in the Sun’s magnetic landscape and showcases the Inouye Telescope’s ...