Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the hottest place on Earth for the briefest of moments during an experiment. Now, it can be one of the brightest places ...

Eli Sloutskin and Alexander Butenko watched this droplet transform as they lowered and then raised its temperature. As it cools, the spherical droplet of hexadecane briefly becomes an icosahedron ...