A pair of photons enters an optical maze, and sometimes they leave as something new. Not new in the everyday sense, since both were still photons when they came out. But new in the way they share ...

A restarted black hole in J1007+3540 reveals how episodic jet activity and cluster pressure sculpt giant radio galaxies. Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a black hole ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are paving the way for the future detection of dark ...

Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What is Bluetooth? – Henry, age 13, Somerville, ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

It’s amazing what a little light can do. Chemist Simon Friedman ’89 is using it in a system he hopes will help some of the 589 million people around the world who are living with diabetes.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

A paper written by University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, or CISE, Professor Sumit Kumar Jha, Ph ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...