Reporters' Notebook: as 2026 begins, we urge the cybersecurity industry to prioritize patching, prepping for quantum threats, ...

"What we're trying to do here is make sure that the Congress's powers under the Constitution are upheld and can be enforced," ...

Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that used geometry ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

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The new form, called Ice XXI, appeared at room temperature in the lab, and it may have a similar density to ice on distant moons in our solar system ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, ...