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One of the great icons of human curiosity, the Arecibo radio telescope, is going to be torn down, the National Science Foundation, its owner, announced today.

High-precision metrology based on the peculiarities of the subatomic world.

A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Researchers have figured out that it can work.

Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history.

The Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries will bring together concepts in applied mathematics, theoretical and computational physics, modern optics and photonics, and acoustics.

A California team will use a robotic vehicle to study tiny seafloor creatures, hoping they might yield new compounds to fight viruses and cancer.

Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity — and even a method to test it experimentally

Mathieu Renzo, a researcher at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, weighs in on the recent discovery of a wolf-rayet binary star system.

For decades it seemed that room-temperature superconductivity might be forever out of reach, but in the last five years a few research groups around the world have been engaged in a race to attain it in the lab.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, who transformed an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, commonly called CRISPR, into a tool that can simply and cheaply edit the genomes of everything from wheat to mosquitoes to humans.