Physics

An asteroid hurtling toward Earth could be deflected without a spacecraft ever touching it. The trick is using X-rays to […]

Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top

Sometimes science fiction does inspire science research. À la Jurassic Park’s entombed mosquito, scientists have developed a method to store

Nuclear power of the future is going to need fuel. That has governments, energy companies and nuclear engineers clamoring to

In real life, laws are broken all the time. Besides your everyday criminals, there are scammers and fraudsters, politicians and

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium.  A new study lays the groundwork to expand

Any way you slice it, a paper cut is painful.  Magazines, letters and books harbor a devious potential for minor

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes midcalculation with a

Scientific clockmakers have crafted a prototype of a nuclear clock, hinting at future possibilities for using atomic nuclei to perform

The motion of whizzing electrons has been captured like never before. Researchers have developed a laser-based microscope that snaps images