Stories by Davide Castelvecchi

Mission planners have chosen the first landing sites on boulder-strewn body for Hayabusa 2 and its rovers to touch down

The world’s most powerful particle collider has yet to turn up new physics—now some physicists are turning to a different strategy

The Fields Medals have been awarded to four researchers who work on number theory, geometry and network analysis

With the end of Europe’s major Planck mission, researchers are moving to smaller projects studying different aspects of the cosmic microwave background

Can a competition with cash rewards improve techniques for tracking the Large Hadron Collider’s messy particle trajectories?

After a clutch of historic detections, gravitational-wave researchers have set their sights on some ambitious scientific quarry

Physicists at experiment in Italy continue to see a data fluctuation that they say represents dark matter—but the mystery deepens

Robert Langlands’ ideas unearthed connections within mathematics that have helped to solve centuries-old problems and aided researchers in disparate fields

Science mourns the death of physicist and icon of science Stephen Hawking

Networks that harness entanglement and teleportation could enable leaps in security, computing and science

High-quality beams could be among the first practical applications of the booming field of topological physics

An expert from a nuclear-test-monitoring system explains how his team is trying to help in the search for the ARA San Juan

Club of physics funding agencies pushes for projects including a neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea

D-Wave system shows quantum computers can learn to detect particle signatures in mountains of data, but doesn’t outpace conventional methods — yet

Giant observatory announces long-awaited result

Gossip over colliding neutron stars has astronomers in a tizzy

Simulations follow how swirls in a fluid transfer and dissipate energy 

Odd results could still be consistent with the Standard Model of cosmology

Topological effects might be hiding inside perfectly ordinary materials, waiting to reveal bizarre new particles or bolster quantum computing

Technology far exceeded expectations in LISA Pathfinder test

A series of odd findings have theorists hoping for new particles

Chemists will navigate molecular wagons along a tiny golden track

Physicists try to rebuild the laws of heat and energy for processes at a quantum scale

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