Light behaves as both a wave and a particle, a paradox that has resisted complete explanation for over a century despite ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

A new paper presents a method for distinguishing between different sources of nanohertz gravitational waves. Pulsars may be revealing faint ripples in the fabric of the universe, ultra–low-frequency ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

Squeezed light is a specialized form of light in which quantum fluctuations are redistributed between two complementary properties. According to quantum theory, light is characterized by ...

The announcement Monday that three laureates will share the Nobel memorial prize in economics for explaining ...

As professors, it is our sacred obligation to offer the opportunity to achieve this level of thinking and love for knowledge to all our students. It is also our responsibility to recognize and to ...

On Oct. 9, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds ...

The advance hints at the possibility of portable muon-making devices that could help peer through solid materials for hidden contraband.

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have been awarded the Physics Nobel Prize for their work on quantum ...