An avalanche during a storm in the Sierra Nevada killed at least eight skiers on a guided backcountry excursion.

The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

A physicist proposes that the universe might not be empty but act like a viscous fluid, resisting expansion. This bold idea ...

Set to take his new live show around the world, the physicist and presenter reflects on his defining travel experiences.

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ' soup ' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a ...

The science communicator, a disciple of Stephen Hawking, believes it will be decades before we colonize Mars. But he says we ...

Nathalie Vriend, a skier and physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies avalanches, explains what happens in an avalanche and techniques for surviving one.

Since the mass introduction of antibiotics last century, bacteria have been fighting back with an arsenal of defensive mechanisms. Some produce enzymes that can digest the antibiotic molecule before ...

When an electron travels through a polar crystalline solid, its negative charge attracts the positively charged atomic cores, causing the surrounding crystal lattice to deform. The electron and ...

In prophetic words for today’s AI age, in 2014, he urged the Church and the political world to remember that human beings may ...

With his vast science background, Jay Tittman "always brought interesting topics to talk about,” his colleagues said.