Funded by the Air Force, Brian Gilchrist and his colleagues are developing a new type of thruster that uses nanoparticles as propellant. Much of the engine is etched directly onto a wafer-thin piece ...

Physicists at Radboud University have outlined a theoretical model suggesting that compact stars and their remnants could, in principle, slowly lose mass through a Hawking-like radiation process even ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of gravity, which explains the behavior of stars, planets, and the structure of the ...

After years of creating highly specialized software, researchers used supercomputer clusters to finally solve the "100,000-body problem.

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come ...