Eternal Strands, the new game from Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw's Yellow Brick Games, is set to launch on ...

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In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

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Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

Astrophysicist P. Ajith discusses universe expansion, combining Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum physics for ...

The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...

The ways a sweater is folded, stretched or rumpled determines how it settles into one of several resting meta-states.

From squirting cucumbers to cosmic stamps, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year. Here is our pick of the best 10, not in any particular order.

Called 'Genesis', the tool is a new open-source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated ...