Physics

At the age of 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how many […]

Every year, scientists break new ground in their quest to understand life and the mysteries of the cosmos. Here are

Bhavin Shastri still gets excited when he sees a laser pointer and has been fascinated by them since he was

Imagine Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airplanes. Steam robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in hats

Electric vehicles promise to help us move away from fossil fuels, but they present a new problem: how to get

An asteroid heading toward Earth can be deflected without ever touching a spacecraft. The trick is to use X-rays to

Above the cloud tops, storms blow with a complex and frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The award

Rays of cancer-killing particles have been caught red-handed. Particle beams can deliver a burst of destructive energy directly to tumors

To feed artificial intelligence’s voracious appetite for energy, tech companies are turning to small nuclear reactors. Last week, Google and