We have known for several decades that the universe is expanding. Scientists use multiple techniques to measure the present-day expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble constant. These ...

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated ...

Physicists have produced experimental evidence that anyons, exotic quasiparticles long thought to exist only in ...

At the tail end of 2025, Brandon Sanderson left his massive Cosmere fantasy universe behind for his new short story collection Tailored Realities. But more surprisingly, the book largely leaves the ...

When Titanic’s first five compartments flooded, the real problem was not just water ingress but a shift in buoyancy and stability. This breaks down the physics of center of gravity, center of buoyancy ...

Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without ...

Luckily, it did not have to face Shelob, but it might have learned about the past habitability of the Red Planet.

Ron Mickens Image Collection . Over the past several years, Dr. Mickens has also sent us a large collection of personal ...

Michael Pollan’s new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

Section A covers Biology, with 16 questions carrying 30 marks. Section B covers Chemistry, with 13 questions carrying 25 marks.

After changing how we eat and how we trip, the author returns to his garden — and the page — to examine the mystery of ...