By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering ...

Exit velocity is the speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat. Statcast measures it in miles per hour, and it indicates ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

This means that, due to time dilation, you would age faster on Mars than on Earth. If you were to spend a whole 50 years on the Red Planet, you’d end up a whole 9 seconds older than if you had stayed ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

A laser is usually constructed from two basic elements: a material that provides optical gain through stimulated emission and an optical cavity that partially traps the light. When the total gain in ...