For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute have managed to fully characterize few-femtosecond-long light pulses tunable ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom. Some are negotiating. Others are ...

Savvy shoppers know this is the ideal opportunity to start checking names off your holiday list, but we won't tell if you sneak in a few goodies for yourself while you're at it. After all, with ...