Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

A message from the future sounds like science fiction, until someone starts asking how many bits it could actually carry.

Arnie demonstrates a grape trick that somehow manages to break the rules of physics.

Say hello to Argus, a 20-legged, blob-looking robot capable of seeing in all directions at the same time and able to move ...

Scientists at the University of Houston have shattered a long-standing superconductivity record, creating a material that can ...

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Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may ...

Imagine slipping into a multiplayer VR version of Grand Theft Auto, racing cars against players scattered across the world.

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U-M reseachers have used a U.S. Navy ocean forecasting model to help bring ocean patterns into clearer focus, potentially benefitting weather forecast models.