As thrill-seekers, we like to do a lot of extreme, gravity-defying stunts to push our limits. If base jumping or caving is ...

Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

Robots trained entirely inside a digital simulation — never touching a physical arm, never resetting a cable, never recovering from a dropped test tube — ran continuously on real hardware for an hour ...

A tiny domino may look harmless, but it holds a surprising amount of power. A single falling piece can trigger a chain ...

Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin.

University of Chicago mathematics Prof. Yu Deng has received the Fields Medal for his contributions toward placing the laws ...

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

At the center of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, there is a large elliptical galaxy called NGC 4696. Deeper still, there is a supermassive black hole buried within the core of this galaxy. New data from ...

Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most distant known quasars dating back to the earliest chapters in cosmic history, including the two most ancient quasars ...

Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky takes a closer look at the physics of the "Fast and Furious" franchise and rates how real they are.