Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

This documentary focuses on the propaganda surrounding the development and deployment of the atomic bomb and the journalism ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray transient event, which turned out to be an X-ray flare ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Meteorologists sometimes warn of a winter storm that could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. According to the US National ...