The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh, key political changes in Scandinavia and America, plus cultural and scientific milestones.

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole hides behind veils of dust, gas, and warped spacetime. Now a strange pulsar, PSR J1745-2900, appears to be circling close enough to feel that ...

Energy efficiency in physics is not measured the way most people think about it. Instead of asking how much heat a process ...

Beneath a stream of radio noise gathered over the course of a long night of observation, the signal came in quietly.

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for space exploration, scientific advancement and national security. But ...

Canadian entertainment giant Blue Ant Media has officially completed its acquisition of Vancouver-based Thunderbird Entertainment, sealing a deal that brings one of the country’s busiest animation ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, ...

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, ...