From the most distant stars in the sky to the screen in front of your face, light is everywhere. But the exact nature of ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In the 1960s and 1970s, the finishing theoretical touches were being ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. From the end of 2015 until now, the particle physics community had been ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experimental work confirming quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where the state of ...

In the March 1988 issue of Popular Mechanics, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote an article describing his vision for humanity's return to the moon. In the article, Asimov ...

A team of more than 100 researchers working at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe may have just witnessed the first direct evidence of a theoretical particle called an odderon. The LHC, the world's ...

How do things work? To find out, we observe them and we take them apart. But not everything is easily observed, and until recently some things couldn’t be taken apart. It’s the culmination of a theory ...

"What If is an epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities, some in distant corners ...

If you have ever had a PET scan at a hospital or heard about radiation treatment for cancer or brain tumours, there's a good chance a cyclotron was involved. But what is a cyclotron and how is it used ...