Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

The Butterfly Effect theory is a pretty interesting one in defining how every single event, no matter how small, is connected to a cosmic chain of events.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

What made humans behave differently to their closest relatives? Researchers have long sought an answer in a handful of genetic differences between Homo sapiens and our close relatives the Neanderthals ...

For five decades, many have tried to crack the Zodiac's Z13 cipher - which promises to reveal the killer's true name. Now, ...

A new theoretical study suggests fusion reactors could do more than generate energy, they might also produce particles linked to dark matter. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say they have ...