The longest verifiable home run in professional baseball history was hit by Joey Meyer of the minor league Denver…

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A new study has found that nuclear radiation during Cold War-era weapons testing could have induced significant…

After designing a curved basketball backboard that redirects every shot through the hoop, Shane Wighton has…

This black hole—if that’s really what it is—is so close to Earth that you can see its star system without a…

Astronomers and physicists continue to pursue the answers to the universe’s deepest questions, but on many matters,…

Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system,…

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, physicist, and CEO of software company Wolfram Research (behind Wolfram Alpha…

Does it really take years of practice and dedication on the basketball court to compete with the talents of NBA…

Particle physicists have released the results of a decade-long search, taking us a crucial step closer toward…

A typical neutron star measures 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) wide, according to new research. It’s the most accurate…

Business conglomerate and defense contractor Honeywell announced today that it will bring what it claims is the most…

Now that most of the world’s major problems have been resolved, science is turning its attention to the less…

A task force organized by the American Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit organization made up of other American…

You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an…

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of small clumps of dark matter warping the…

The U.S. Department of Energy has decided on the final location of a major upcoming American particle collider:…

Congress voted last month to rename the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope as the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory,…

Scientists have linked two silicon quantum bits with photons over a relatively large distance. The new advance could…

Scientists cooled LEGOs to nearly absolute zero—and hope to one day incorporate a LEGO-style material into a quantum…