(PASIEKA/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Superconductivity, the ability for materials to conduct electricity with zero ...

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

Daniel Kleppner, a highly honored physicist who developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and whose foundational atomic discoveries helped open up the field of ...

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103. The prestigious Tsinghua University, where he ...

What makes a “genius?” National Geographic’s latest TV show, “Genius,” developed by Noah Pink and Kenneth Biller, focuses on the life of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. It is based on the 2007 ...

Whether you’re a paranormal believer or cynic, there’s no denying that there’s something strange about Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah. Weird noises, glowing orbs, shadowy figures, mysteriously ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Dr. Michael Guillén, a former Harvard physicist, has proposed that God may exist at a specific physical location within the universe. The idea came after his four-year-old son asked if you could drive ...

As a student, Galileo famously observed a lamp swinging in Pisa Cathedral and timed its swing against his pulse. He concluded that the period was constant and independent of its amplitude. Galileo ...

The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. He was celebrated for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. Today the University of Edinburgh announced the death of the Nobel ...