This article is part of a series explaining how readers can learn the skills to take part in activities that academics love doing as part of their work. By far my favourite thing about my job as an ...

Thousands gathered in the Court of Sciences on Nov. 5 for the 2023 Exploring Your Universe science fair. Attendees crowded around chemistry sets and telescopes at EYU, UCLA’s largest science fair held ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities in the world. Researchers use it to study dark and distant regions ...

We have made our own gravity wave detectors on Earth that are about 40 kilometers long and detect variation with lasers and now we have used decades of Pulsar observations to detect long wave gravity ...

An illustration of multiple, independent Universes, causally disconnected from one another in an ever-expanding cosmic ocean, is one depiction of the Multiverse idea. Other Universes with different ...

Imagine a world with two suns setting below the horizon or another raining glass in furious winds sideways. These are not scenes from some sort of science fiction movie but authentic locations which ...

Soon after it was released a few short years ago, I began to delve into Steven Wolfram's new book, "A Fundamental Theory of Physics." I have followed his work since the early '90s when I first used ...

“The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time,” explained Heino Falcke, theoretical astrophysicist at Radboud University. That is ...

Through objects, interactives, and videos, this exhibition explains what scientists think our universe is like, how the present scientific view of the universe came to be, how it is being shaped today ...

Technology and art go hand in hand. And if there’s one artist known for pushing the envelope, it’s Marina Abramović. As a performance artist, Abramović has put on many fascinating art installations.

Stephen Wolfram – the physicist who created Mathematica – reflects on how this computational tool has changed in 30 years, and on the practical and conceptual role that computational thinking plays in ...