Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

The traction control button disables the system that prevents your wheels from spinning when you accelerate on slippery ...

Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.

Scientists have proposed a surprising new way to detect gravitational waves—by observing how they change the light emitted by ...

Delegations from Iran and the United States are expected to meet for talks in Pakistan this week. The US has announced this, ...

“There are no dotted lines separating countries. Weather systems sweep across continents without regard for treaties. Pollution plumes drift from one nation’s airspace into another’s. That visual ...

The reasons cited for the price of Australian passports don’t stack up when you look at other countries and the rate of ...

A team of researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has achieved a major ...

A team of physicists has done something that sounds impossible: they filmed points of absolute darkness racing through a beam ...

The next phase of peace talks is uncertain after Iran says it has "no plans for the next round" of negotiations.

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

In October 1989, a blast from the sun flung out a stream of super-powered protons. This solar storm lasted for days and ...