Quantum computing has huge promise from a technical perspective, but the practical benefits are less clear.

The pros and pitfalls of this type of thinking

The nature of dark energy remains one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

Pictures of black holes have a white outline around them when photographed, due to one of black holes’ unique and key features.

The discussions in the committee are always open, frank and sometimes emotional, but never hostile.

The trailer for ‘Oppenheimer’ fails to include female physicists, which is indicative of a broader media trend that, if reversed, could lead to greater gender diversity in science.

Upgrades to the hardware and software of the advanced observatory should allow astrophysicists to detect much fainter gravitational waves than before.

Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.

Nothing is harder to find than you might think.