On this day in 1990, physicist Tim Berners-Lee circulated a memo for a relatively modest information sharing proposal that ...

Transient cosmic ray phenomena produced by a solar superstorm can be linked to variations in atmospheric electricity.

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests ...

A research team at the Jülich Supercomputing Center, together with experts from NVIDIA, has set a new record in quantum ...

A tiny, particle-sized engine that runs at temperatures approaching the innermost core of the Sun could open a window into ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the ...

Protons and charged hadrons deposit energy most rapidly in the final millimetres before they stop. Pinpoint this “Bragg peak” on tumour cells and cancer can be eliminated while sparing healthy tissues ...

Early Universe could host primordial black holes, cannibal stars and boson stars, offering new insights into dark matter, ...

At a meeting of the CERN Council, its delegates and Associate Member States reviewed the outcome of the Feasibility Study for ...