Stories by Davide Castelvecchi

Physicists who were set to attend the American Physical Society’s Denver conference are using virtual platforms to share their talks

“Orion’s shoulder” had reached unprecedented dimness in mid-February, leaving astronomers befuddled

With an international deal in serious jeopardy, Iran is not racing to build nuclear weapons—but its capabilities are growing

A Mars invasion, a climate meeting and human–animal hybrids are set to shape the research agenda

Cabinet greenlights $600-million Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, which scientists hope will bring revolutionary discoveries

Precise measurement affirms that the particle’s radius is smaller than physicists once thought

Radio astronomers look to hydrogen for insights into the universe’s first billion years

First major result from South Africa’s pioneering MeerKAT radio telescope reveals remnants of energetic explosions at the galaxy’s center

A German-Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands of stars

LIGO and Virgo observatories have spotted ripples from what could be the first-ever detection of this long-sought event

Hayabusa2 released the projectile to make a crater on the asteroid's surface

Detailed data on space-time ripples are set to pour in from LIGO and Virgo’s upgraded detectors

Abel-prize winner Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck built bridges between analysis, geometry and physics

Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies

The proposed facility would become the most powerful—and most expensive—collider ever built

High-pressure hydrogen materials could be a step toward a new era of superconductivity

Physicists at the LIGO experiment have now detected 11 cosmic events that produce ripples in the fabric of space-time

An event known as "Cow" that has rocked astronomy since June likely offers a close look at the birth of a neutron star or black hole

One of the most ambitious EU ‘Flagship’ schemes yet has picked 20 projects, aiming to turn weird physics into useful products

Physicists say this futuristic, super-secure network could be useful long before it reaches technological maturity

European and Japanese double probe, BepiColombo, will take seven years to reach the solar system’s innermost planet

The University of Pisa and the European Research Council also said that they are opening investigations into Alessandro Strumia’s conduct

In a multi-“cat” experiment the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim

Physicists achieve powerful acceleration by "surfing" electrons on proton waves over short distances