Stories by Elizabeth Gibney

Physicists see the hallmarks of cosmic expansion in a ring of cold atoms

Physicists make misaligned sheets of the carbon material conduct electricity without resistance

Researchers intend to transport the elusive material between labs and use it to study the strange behavior of rare radioactive nuclei 

Space agencies are planning a Deep Space Gateway to orbit the Moon

A former pharmaceutical boss will help navigate the U.K.'s exit from the European Union

Physicists begin to embrace alternative explanations for the missing material

Physicist Gil Lonzarich has sparked a revolution in the study of phase transitions driven by quantum fluctuations

Black hole merger pinpointed with record accuracy by the LIGO and Virgo observatories

U.S. plans to try a version covering race and disability; other countries have already embraced the voluntary rating system

In the shadow of the Large Hadron Collider, six teams are competing to answer one of the universe’s deepest existential questions

A billion-euro, 10-year “Quantum Technology Flagship” project will pursue advances in sensors, communications and computing

A new experiment to measure the behavior of muons in magnetic fields could reveal unknown particles

Bizarre forms of matter called time crystals were supposed to be physically impossible. Now they’re not

Physicists demonstrate the first single-atom magnetic storage

Although still mysterious, these quirky extragalactic signals are now poised to transform mainstream research

Physicists harness starlight to support the case for entanglement.

The proposed system could lead to breakthroughs in currently unsolvable problems

The exit would deal a heavy blow to multibillion-dollar nuclear fusion experiments

Despite skepticism about their full potential, many researchers are eager to use D-Wave's machines

Probe could give early warnings of catastrophic solar storms heading for Earth

Updated version of DeepMind’s AlphaGo program was behind a mystery online competitor  

Shift in focus comes in response to a changing world order and the threat of terrorism

The SESAME project is set to revolutionize science in the region but is strapped for cash

A discovery that was supposed to help reveal how the bursts arise only thickens the plot