Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...

Distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the wrong order.” Today, we know, the ...

I didn’t grow up in a baking household. As the Asian immigrant lore goes, our oven (and dishwasher, while we’re at it) was, indeed, used primarily for storage. That isn’t to say that we didn’t love ...

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention. By Paul Vitello Jamil Abdullah ...

A giant explosion that shook part of Russia more than a century ago has never been categorically explained. And yet, some scientists believe that it could have been the result of a very close ...

Most Americans say there is at least some discrimination against Black, Hispanic and Asian people, while fewer than half say White people experience a lot of or some discrimination. These attitudes ...