All of the sports at the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortino involve some physics in action. For figure skating, ski jumping ...

Every time a coffee mug drops, a satellite orbits or an astronaut floats, we are watching the same phenomenon play out under very different disguises. For centuries we have treated gravity as the ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our universe—which neither emits nor reflects light—remains unsolved. A team ...

There are some things in life that just sort of happen. Desks get covered in dust and scraps of paper. Clothes get dirty and the laundry basket fills up. Weeds slowly creep across an untended ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo will showcase athletes' prowess and the fascinating science of winter sports. From physics in ski jumping and sliding sports to mathematical ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

"If such a fifth force exists, it cannot exceed 7% of the strength of gravity." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...