A difficult-to-describe nanoscale object called the magnetic skyrmion might one day yield new microelectronic devices that ...

With just an iPad, students in any classroom across the world could soon reimagine the ordinary diagrams in any physics ...

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A number of scientists based in the US claim they are being censored because of their scepticism, while others are said to be too afraid of the consequences to object to tests on animals.

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

“All Killer, No Filler…” If you’ve ever played with refrigerator magnets, you’re familiar with the way that magnets attract or repel other objects. What you might not know is that even ...

But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that science relies on thematic organization and a logical narrative flow, referring to experimentation without direction as “mere ...

The big bang theory of the universe starts with a single point which rapidly expanded and slowly evolved into the cosmos we see today. Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a dense, ...

Australia has committed up to $600 million over a decade to bolster PNG's pitch to secure a team in the competition, with the NRL set to make a final decision in coming weeks. But the ABC revealed ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly ...