Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

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A Turning Point for Science and Society. Proclaimed by UNESCO, the International Year of Quantum Physics marks a major initiative to spo ...

Buddhist scholars, researchers, practitioners, and eminent spiritual leaders who had closely interacted with the 14th Dalai Lama, over several years, including the supreme hierarchy of international ...

In late June and early July, a heatwave swept through Europe bringing with it temperatures of over 40°C in many countries.  ...

Mr. Trump’s ideological war on universities is putting students, professors and scientists under pressure. That could ...

Bruce Frahm, a Colby native who graduated from high school there in 1970, remembered being in a livestock judging contest at ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

One young performer, Houston-raised Eric Chien, exploded onto the global scene at the 2018 World Championships of Magic, in ...

You could say that Baruch Sterman has a case of the “blues.”The doctor of physics, who worked as a hi-tech entrepreneur and ...

EDINBURGH University has responded after students led a walk out of their own graduation ceremonies in protest at the institution’s links ...