Physics

Scientists Have Found The Most Efficient Way to Hold a Coffee Mug

Drinking it is a different story

Soon Everyone Will Be Able to Read NASA-Funded Research

Get ready for a lot more space science

Researchers Discover the Blue Whirl, a New Type of Flame

Naturally occurring fire tornadoes are scary, but a new clean-burning, controlled version could help clean oil spills

Must all molecules of life be handed?

Must the Molecules of Life Always be Left-Handed or Right-Handed?

They are on Earth, but life on other planets could play by different rules

Leonardo da Vinci—friction pioneer

Researcher Discovers First Written Evidence of Laws of Friction in Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks

A scientific breakthrough was dismissed as a useless doodle—until now

Pitcher R.A. Dickey is well-known for his knuckleball.

Physicists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Knuckleballs Are So Hard to Hit

All with the help of a ball-throwing robot

String theory—feline edition.

Cats Are Adorable Physicists

Beneath that fluffy exterior lies a shrewd understanding of how the world works

An artist's rendition of merging black holes that produce gravitational waves.

Gravitational Waves Strike Twice

Scientists announce the second detection of gravitational waves

Most experiments using the Large Hadron Collider visualize their data, but now this information can be translated into music in real time.

Tune Into the Smashing Sounds of Large Hadron Collider Data in Real Time

Grooves made by groundbreaking physics

Wander About an Art Installation Inspired by the Large Hadron Collider

Art from science

An illustration of the four spacecraft that detected a magnetic reconnection.

NASA Finally Caught This Crazy Space Weather in Action

The interactions between the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic fields drive explosive space weather

A visualization of the Varying Length Model of the cosmic web.

Take in the Beauty of This Gravity Web That Connects Galaxies Across the Universe

A new simulation visualizes how distant galaxies might be connected

A CMS collision event as seen in the built-in event display on the CERN Open Data Portal.

Explore 300 Terabytes of CERN Data Now Free to Download

CERN’s latest data dump includes raw information from the Large Hadron Collider

This is a hypothetical set of possible universes.

Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Is Real?

Astronomers are arguing about whether they can trust this untested—and potentially untestable—idea

An illustration of the excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice with neutrons.

Three Things to Know About the Newly-Discovered State of Matter

There’s more to matter than just solids, liquids and gases

A charred fragment of one of the Herculaneum Scrolls.

Metallic Ink Discovered in Ancient Scrolls Buried by Mount Vesuvius

New discovery may help researchers read ancient scrolls

Astrophysicist Kip Thorne dared to dream of a machine to find gravitational waves.

The Detection of Gravitational Waves Was a Scientific Breakthrough, but What’s Next?

Scientists are sitting on top of the world after this monumental discovery and are eager to keep exploring the universe

Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland

CERN Seeks International Artists For Full-Time Residency

The European Center for Nuclear Research is calling for art submissions for its annual award

Recently Discovered Spider Is Named After Physicist Brian Greene

About the size of the human palm, the "Brian" spider can swim and hunt fish

An illustration of galaxy superclusters and cosmic voids, similar to the structure of the BOSS Great Wall

Meet the BOSS, the Largest Structure in the Universe (So Far)

Astronomers recently discovered a wall of galaxies 1 billion light years across, larger than anything else yet identified in the cosmos

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