Aviation unions have issued a warning to the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, threatening strike action over an alleged breach of agreement by the management of the ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

In a groundbreaking study published in PRX Quantum, researchers led by Enrico Rinaldi have used quantum computing and AI to simulate the quantum structure hidden inside black holes. For the first time ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...

A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at the heart of the galaxy M87—astronomer Heber Curtis had already discovered ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

Indian-origin scholars have achieved global recognition, with five US-based Nobel laureates shaping modern understanding across science and economics.

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us humans, on interstellar scales it’s glacially slow. Even at a photon’s ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star, dubbed M31-V1, was key to showing that the universe extended far beyond ...

At the same time, faith without reason risks superstition. Thus, faith is “more powerful” in the sense that it inspires transformation, but it is only authentic when harmonized with reason. In the ...

In an era of relentless digital demands and the cult of busyness, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, former Optus boss and top Commonwealth Bank executive, champions an unfashionable habit: deep thinking. This ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us humans, on interstellar ...