Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...

Scientists propose a bold new dark matter candidate: the superheavy, charged gravitino, detectable in experiments like JUNO and DUNE.

Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth.

Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been recognized as the recipient of the American Physical Society's (APS) 2025 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in ...

The weight of the asteroid may vary from 51 million kg to more than 711 million kg, and the energy required to move each of those weights precisely differs greatly.

There’s a charming little bakeshop with turquoise walls in Hampton, Virginia that’s creating quite the sensation in the world of fried dough delicacies. Glazed Doughnuts might not look like much from ...

Breast cancer awareness campaigns often focus on mammograms and self-exams. But there's another critical piece of the puzzle, breast density.

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...

October is just a few days away, and that is when we observe Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a month meant to promote screening and reduce the risk of disease.

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own nominations, and there were plenty of good suggestions. So I’ve decided to do a ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but ...