Interstellar travel without computers? Shields that block bullets but not knives? The Dune universe may be beloved, but it’s packed with science that doesn’t hold up. We break down the biggest ...

Universal law of quantum vortex dynamics discovered in superfluid helium by Trisha Radulovich, Florida State University edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise.

The universe is getting more disordered, entropy is growing -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. But according to quantum theory, entropy should actually stay the same. Scientists took a ...

Tsung-Dao Lee, who helped overturn ‘law’ of physics, dies at 97 As a teenager in China, he began studying science on his own. Less than two decades later, he shared a Nobel Prize for ...

Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for overturning what had been considered a fundamental law of nature — that particles are always ...

This month, the Second Law celebrates its 200th birthday. It emerged from the efforts of French engineer Sadi Carnot to figure out the physics of steam engines.

200-Year-Old Physics Law Might Have Some Major Exceptions Heat transfer might behave differently in transparent objects.

A sustainable new rocket propulsion system could prove an alternative theory of inertia.