Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

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Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...