From safer airbags to stronger athletes, UVA data science professor Stephen Baek is using artificial intelligence to study ...

A research team has studied the development of the Shanghai Typhoon Model from a traditional physics-based regional model ...

The weather world is awash in a sea of raw data for both the past and present, so it makes sense that AI would earn a place ...

In almost every intro class, someone is bound to say that psychology isn’t a “real science.” Physics is treated as rigorous, ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists ...

Streamers are building huge audiences by attacking academic physics as just another corrupt establishment. Scientists are starting to worry about the consequences.

The molecular hydrogen ion H₂⁺ is the simplest molecule. This simplicity makes it a perfect study object for physicists, as ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

In 1925, a young German physicist fled to the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea to ease a severe bout of hay fever. With nothing but daily walks and long swims to distract him, 23-year-old ...