For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

The Greek god who gave fire to humans has a lot to answer for, from internet to nuclear bombs The other day I fell into the Prometheus trap; or rather, my car did. When ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is ...

Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...