The Quote of the Day by Albert Einstein, “Man invented the atomic bomb but no mouse in the world would ever build a mousetrap,” reflects on the contradiction of human intelligence. The physicist used ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

A new study explains how some supernovas are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, astronauts land on a planet orbiting close to a black hole. They spend a few hours on its surface. When they retu.

The showpiece Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed to work in sync with two similar facilities in the United States which, in 2015, detected gravitational waves for ...

History often only remembers great scientists for what they found. But sometimes, when they are alone together, they show a ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...