The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer.

At the request of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the "Father of Oak Ridge" Kenneth Nichols retired from the Army to become general manager of the AEC.

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has ...

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear ...

Sherry Levin, who starred at Holy Cross and was a legendary coach at Worcester Academy, put a lifetime of pre-game speeches ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Deep inside the Ring Nebula, astronomers have spotted a structure that should not exist: a narrow, glowing bar of iron ...

Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...