Global conflicts are making renewable energy more attractive, but an all-renewable grid will require solving physics problems as well as political and economic ones ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma, there have ...

In the history books, he’ll forever be Sir Anthony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, fellow of the Royal Society back home in the U.K. and namesake ...

Gravity is by far the weakest of nature’s four fundamental forces, and physicists have spent decades asking a deceptively simple question: why? One answer, first sketched a century ago and refined ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about it Jettisoned junk A pallet of old batteries released into space from the ...

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...

Coleman's Snap 'N Go collapsible hard cooler folds flat in 10 seconds, holds 76 cans, keeps ice cold 55 hours, and costs $200-240.

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...