CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

A study shows that there are a number of factors that define a charismatic person regardless of their age, sex or the country ...

Physicists from the University of Pennsylvania, working with colleagues at Arizona State University, are examining the limitations of a framework that aims to unify the laws of physics throughout the ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, ...

Twisted materials—known as moiré structures—have revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great “contribution” to science: the killing of Archimedes. Today the U.S. risks suffering ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

ConspectusMolecular deposition on solid surfaces forms crystalline or amorphous/glassy thin solid films. Intermolecular interactions govern the packing and dynamics of these films. The connection ...

With the help of powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from 69 locations in the cosmos, researchers now have found the "missing" matter.