Big G is the oldest fundamental constant in physics and remains the least clearly defined. One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery of the gravitational constant, and it all came down to the opening of a single envelope.
An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name.
The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.
The universe may have its own version of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and that might be enough to explain dark energy without invoking any new physics at all.
There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans.
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.
Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.
It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
