In January 2026, D-Wave Quantum filed multiple shelf registrations totaling about US$330.41 million across common and ...

This year, we’ll be blessed with new novels by Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Andrew Sean Greer, and so many more celebrated ...

National Pie Day is here, which is strange because pie needs no holiday—it’s already the undisputed champion of foods. Still, if society insists, we might as well use the occasion to study pie’s rich ...

In "Friction," tribologist Jennifer Vail shows how the fundamental force that resists motion keeps driving us forward.

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, are expected to outperform ...

In observations collected on September 21, 2025, the spacecraft snapped not one but multiple eruptions in the solar corona. Matching Proba-3 observations with NASA’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) ...

The international team of astronomers reports that all of the types of ice in the comet appear to be sublimating. This is the phase change where a solid turns into a gas, skipping the liquid phase.

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering will host a free virtual information session for prospective Master of Engineering (MEng) students, on February 5, at 6:30 p.m.