Former colleagues from Portugal have painted a picture of an immensely talented physics student - Claudio Valente - who spiraled downward after coming to the US to study at Brown University.

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

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The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agencies like NASA, NIH and NOAA. NPR's Rob Stein and Katia Riddle spoke to scientists ...

I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this interstellar intruder continues ...

Argonne National Laboratory named five scientists as Argonne Distinguished Fellows in 2025. They are Seth B. Darling, Katrin ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

We carry these mixed feelings into 2026, which is slated to be another great—yet perhaps troubled—year for science. No list ...

MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro, a rising leader in fusion research, was tragically killed in 2025 after groundbreaking work in ...