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Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Complex fluids, such as polymer melts and concentrated suspensions, are foundational materials for industrial products, ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the immovable backdrop of modern physics, a force that can be described and ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Step inside the strange world of a superfluid, a liquid that can flow endlessly without friction, defying the common-sense ...

All 16 departments told the admissions committee on Wednesday that they want to either admit students through department-led ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at ...

From anime fans to martial artists, demand for Japanese swords has never been higher — here's how to navigate the market and ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...