Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there?

There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figures in ...

A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit. In their paper published in the journal ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

Scientists test the famous physicist’s predictions by calculating the distortion of time and space. Why is the expansion of ...